‏ Hebrews 10:20

 By the way which he dedicated for us ( ην ενεκαινισεν ημιν οδον ). This "new" ( προσφατον, freshly killed, newly made, from  προς and the root of  φατος, in the papyri, only here in N.T.) and "living" ( ζωσαν ) Jesus opened ("dedicated") for us by his Incarnation and Death for us. Thus he fulfilled God's promise of the "New Covenant" (8:7-13) in Jeremiah. The language is highly symbolic here and "through the veil" here is explained as meaning the flesh of Christ, his humanity, not the veil opening into heaven (6:20). Some do take "veil" here as obscuring the deity of Christ rather than the revelation of God in the human body of Christ (Joh 1:18; 14:9). At any rate because of the coming of Christ in the flesh we have the new way opened for access to God (Heb 2:17f.; 4:16).

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