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To: Hieronymus

Now that’s interesting considering the curtain in the Temple was torn when Christ was crucified.


47 posted on 11/19/2017 12:01:17 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

I believe the idea from the eastern point of view is that at the point of Our Lord’s death, the Holy of Holies became the heavenly Holy of Holies, and thus it was fitting that the earthly foreshadowing be decommissioned.


49 posted on 11/19/2017 1:19:03 PM PST by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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