{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/106/1060198.htm","path":"chr/ecf/106/1060198.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/106/1060198.htm","text":"Chapter XIX.\u2014Of the Rending of the Veil of the Temple, and of the Question Whether Matthew and Mark Really Harmonize with Luke with Respect to the Order in Which that Incident Took Place.\n56. Matthew proceeds thus: \u201cAnd, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.\u201d 1451 Mark\u2019s version is also as follows: \u201cAnd the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.\u201d 1452 Luke likewise gives a statement in similar terms: \u201cAnd the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.\u201d 1453 He does not introduce it, however, in the same order. For, with the intention of attaching miracle to miracle, he has told us first how \u201cthe sun was darkened,\u201d and then has deemed it right to subjoin the said sentence in immediate succession, namely, \u201cAnd the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.\u201d Thus it would appear that he has introduced at an earlier point this incident, which really took place when the Lord expired, so as to give us there a summary description of the circumstances relating to the drinking of the vinegar, and the loud voice, and the death itself, which are understood to have taken place previous to the rending of the veil, and after the darkness had come in. For Matthew has inserted this sentence, \u201cAnd, behold, the veil of the temple was rent,\u201d in immediate succession to the statement, \u201cAnd Jesus, crying again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost;\u201d and has thus given us clearly to understand that the time when the veil was rent was after Jesus had given up His spirit. If, however, he had not added the words, \u201cAnd behold,\u201d but had said simply, \u201cAnd the veil of the temple was rent,\u201d it would have been uncertain whether Mark and he had narrated the incident in the form of a recapitulation, while Luke had kept the exact order, or whether Luke had given the summary account of what these others had introduced in the correct historical succession.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI: The Harmony of t...","type":"page"}