By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
A new and living way. Here He expresses the full assurance of hope. New, he says. He is anxious to show that we have all things greater; since now the gates of Heaven have been opened, which was not done even for Abraham. A new and living way, he says, for the first was a way of death, leading to Hades, but this of life. And yet he did not say, of life, but called it living, (the ordinances, that is,) that which abides.
Through the veil (he says) of His flesh. For this flesh first cut that way, by this He inaugurated it [the way] by which He walked. And with good reason did he call [the flesh] a veil. For when it was lifted up on high, then the things in heaven appeared.
