The gate wasn't unlocked. It was broken or taken off.

The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

I do believe you would have cut the rope.

Should've been taken care of 10 years ago.

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.