„Il velo del Tempio so squarcio (Mc 15,38).
Il simbolo del velo squarciato nel Vangelo di Marco”

in: On His Way.
Studies in Honour of Professor Klemens Stock, S.J.
on the Occasion of his 70-yh Birthday,
ed. A. Malina, Katowice 2004, 248-256.

Author examines symbolic dimension of the words: „the curtain that enclosed the Temple sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom” (Mark 15,38). The idea of disappearing separation between sacrum and profanum included in this symbol of the torn Temple curtain is only an allegorical expression of ideas present in whole teaching of Jesus, in His attitude to Jewish religion. Jesus does not intended to suppress boundaries between sacred and un-sacred places, between ordinary days and time of celebration, between what is clean and what is unclean. But he hold that God acted beyond the limit of space, time or mode. Author gives many interpretations of the symbol of the torn of the Temple curtain proposed in history of exegesis.

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