“Just as the night-time prayer of Paul and Silas opened the gates of the prison, so the…”

Just as the night-time prayer of Paul and Silas opened the gates of the prison, so the night-time prayer of Christians opens the gates of heaven.

attributed to John Chrysostom

A close paraphrase of the way Chrysostom really ends the homily, and not his sentence. He does draw exactly this contrast between the prison and heaven — which is why the paraphrase has travelled so well — but he draws it in the words recorded beside this one.