• Tearing Of The Veil

  Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 10, 2011 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Matthew 27:45-51

  Tags:  Crucifixion, Peas

  Denomination: Baptist

TEARING OF THE VEIL

QUOTE: Note 194 “This veil, which was the thickness of a palm breadth, was sixty feet long and thirty broad, and separated the Holy and Most Holy Places. Various attempts have been made to explain this strange phenomenon on naturalistic grounds, such as the earthquake, or as Jerome’s comment on the Gospel according to the Hebrews, by the fall of the huge lintel of the Temple broken by the earthquake. But this veil was of such tough fabric and so woven that it could not have been rent in twain by an earthquake or the falling of a lintel. Matthew connects the phenomenon directly with the death of Jesus, calling attention to the fact that it was rent ‘from top to bottom’ by God’s hand, throwing open thus the Most Holy Place to all men.”

(Shepard, The Christ of the Gospels, p. 604.)