单词 | veil of the temple |
释义 | > as lemmasveil of the Temple (a) Jewish History. The piece of fine or richly decorated fabric separating the inner sanctuary or holy of holies (holy of holies n. at holy n. 5) from the outer sanctuary or body of the Tabernacle or Temple; = temple-veil n. at temple n.1 Compounds 4. Often in veil of the Temple.Sometimes with allusion to reports in the Gospels that the veil in the Temple in Jerusalem was torn from top to bottom at the moment of Jesus's death (Mark 15: 37–38, Matthew 27:51, Luke 23:45). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > curtain or hanging cloth > [noun] > in front of tabernacle veila1382 fore-hanging1528 vele1580 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxvi. 33 Þe veyl [L. velum] forsoþ be it sett inne by ceerclis, withinne þe which þou schalt putt þe arke of testymony. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xxiii. 45 The veyl [L. velum] of the temple was kitt the myddel. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16762 + 85 Dede men risen out of þer graue, þe temple vayl clef in twoo. a1425 (?a1350) Gospel of Nicodemus (Galba) (1907) l. 660 Þe son wex dim ful sone, Þe vail rafe in þe kirk. 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. xvi. f. xxviiv/2 The veyle of the temple ys broken asunder that dyuyded among the iewes. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. iii. 14 He made a vayle also of yalow sylke, scarlet, purple and lynenworke, and made Cherubins theron. 1585 R. Parsons Christian Directorie i. iv. 234 Two particuler miracles, that should fall out in the said Passion of the Messias: to witt; that the veil of the Iewes Temple should breake in two, and that at middaye, there should be darkenes for three houres, ouer all the world. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Macc. i. 22 Antiochus..entred proudly into the sanctuarie, and tooke away..the vaile. 1683 S. Cradock Hist. Old Test. v. 474 In the Tabernacle there was no other partition but the Veil, which when the High-Priest had entred through, he was within the Holy of Holies. 1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews iii. vii, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 81 The veils, which were composed of four things, they declared the four elements. 1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. iv. iii. 363 While he expired, an earthquake rent the rocks, and the vail of the temple. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 186/2 The inner sanctuary was separated from the holy place by a rich curtain or veil. 1880 Life & Work Mar. 57/1 There was hung from the roof a thick veil, entirely separating the two parts of the tent, the larger of which was called the Holy Place. 1950 Mod. Lang. Rev. 45 456 That rending of the veil of the Temple which marked for ever the end of the Old Covenant and the inception of the New. 1989 J. MacArthur New Test. Comm.: Matthew 24–28 274 The sacrificial system of Israel and its attendant priesthood ceased to have even symbolic value when the veil was torn in two and the Holy of Holies was exposed. 2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Dec. a4 The 12-leaf rosette on top of the stone might have echoed a motif on the veil that divided the Temple's main sanctuary from the Holy of Holies. < as lemmas |
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