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The Vail of the Holiest, and What Is Figured Forth

Benjamin Keach July, 25 2023 1 min read
369 Articles 16 Books
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July, 25 2023
Benjamin Keach
Benjamin Keach 1 min read
369 articles 16 books
THE VAIL OF THE HOLIEST, AND WHAT IS FIGURED FORTH

    I. IT was glorious, of embroidered work; tins saith Guild, signified the body of Christ, filled with the fulness of God, or beautiful with all the most excellent and heavenly graces of the Spirit, Heb 7:26.

    II. It was replenished and wrought full of cherubims! noting thereby that serviceable and ready attendance of the angels on Christ's natural and mystical body, Joh 1:51.

    III. It was borne up by glorious and costly pillars, overlaid with gold, on sockets of silver; to show that the humanity of Christ, especially in his sufferings, should be borne up by his Deity, which his manhood overvailed.

    IV. By the vail only, there was entry into the holiest place of all: so by the Vail, that is to say, the flesh of Christ, which was rent, as it were, upon the cross, a new and living way is made for us to the Father, Heb 10:20.

Extracted from Types and Metaphors of Scripture by Benjamin Keach. Download the complete book.
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