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KEY.—See House, § 6. Of the passages where this word is used in a figurative sense the most important are Isa_22:22 (cf. Rev_3:7), where the key is the symbol of authority and rule; Luk_11:52 ‘the key of knowledge’; and the crux interpretum, Mat_16:19, for which see Power of the Keys.
A. R. S. Kennedy.