LOOKING UNTO JESUS OR CHRIST IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE. BY ...

These quotations furnish sufficient evidence that the covering
of the outer entrance to the tabernacle was a vail,
as well as that which hung before the most holy place. The
same Greek word and the same Hebrew word are applied to
both. p. 129, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
The point now to be ascertained is, In what sense does
Paul use the term, "the vail"? All hangs on the answer to
this question, as he is the one who makes use of the language
now under examination. As has been mentioned, with
the single exception of the three references by the evangelists
to the vail, on the day of the crucifixion, Paul is
the only New Testament writer who makes use of the term.
And in accordance with the accuracy with which he is writing,
he finds it necessary to discriminate between the two.
And inasmuch as he once specifies the second vail when he
refers to that, we must understand him as referring to the
first vail when not thus specified. To understand otherwise,
is to charge Paul with a degree of looseness in his
writings altogether unpardonable in a man of his ability
and education, and altogether unaccountable in one who
wrote, moreover, by the inspiration of God. p. 129, Para.
2, [LOOKING].
It may therefore be confidently asserted that it matters
not how other writers use the term. The evangelists by "the
vail" may mean the vail before the holy of holies, as they
doubtless do; and if other writers had used it in the same
sense a thousand times, it would in nowise affect the case
in hand; for Paul has shown us plainly how he uses the
term, and that is all we have to know, to understand his
writings in reference to it. And when he means the second
vail, he says explicitly, "the second vail:" and when he
does not specify, he must mean the only remaining one,
which is the first. p. 129, Para. 3, [LOOKING].
Now, as final and conclusive proof that this is so, the
reader is requested to turn to Heb. 10:19,20: "Having
therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest
[Greek, holies, plural,] by the blood of Jesus, by a new
and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through
the vail, that is to say, his flesh." Paul here assures us
that Christ by his flesh, his sacrifice, has consecrated a
new and living way for us through the vail. And into what
does that way through the vail lead? Into the holy places,
plural, both of them, the holy as well as the most holy.