The Veil (2)

Foods separated for uncleanness were a sign of Israel's separation to a God whose separation was marked by the veil. The implications of its rending extend to everything touched by the theme of separation, including the people and the purity laws. Divine separation gives way to divine nearness -'I am with you always' (Matt. 28:20), ethnic separation gives way to a universal welcome -'make disciples of all nations' (Matt. 28:19), and the separation of certain foods to uncleanness now symbolizes a past reality that gives way to the intrinsic cleanness of all things.
Philip S. Ross
From the Finger of God, 189

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Philip S. Ross The Veil Separation The Law

The veil's separation function was executed by its prohibition of physical and visual accessibility to God. If this function ceases at the velum scissum, then the barrier that prohibits one from physically entering the presence of God, as well as from seeing his face, is effectively removed (again, as a result of the death of Jesus)

The Torn Veil, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 189

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