καταπέτασμα

katapevtasma katapevtasma,
katapetavsmato",
tov (
katapetavnnumi to spread out over, to cover), an Alexandrian LXX Greek word for
parapevtasma. which the other Greeks use from Herodotus down; a veil spread out, a curtain -- the name given in the Greek Scriptures, as well as in the writings of Philo and Josephus, to the two curtains in the temple at Jerusalem (
tav
katapetavsmata, ; (yet cf. Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, )): one of them (Hebrew &s;m;) at the entrance of the temple separated the Holy place from the outer court (; ; ; Josephus, b. j. 5, 5, 4; it is called also
tov
kavlumma by the Septuagint and Philo, ; ; Philo, vit. Moys. 3: sections 5 and 9), the other veiled the Holy of holies from the Holy place (in Hebrew the tk,roP;;
ejndoteron
katapevtasma, Josephus, Antiquities 8, 3, 3;
tov
ejswtaton
katapevtasma Philo de gig. sec. 12; by the Septuagint and Philo this is called pre-eminently
tov
katapevtasma, ff; ; ; Philo, vit. Moys. as above). This latter
katapevtasma is the only one mentioned in the N. T.:
tov
katapevtasma
tou'
naou', ; ; ;
tov
deuvteron
katapevtasma, ;
tov
ejswvteron
tou'
katapetavsmato" (cf. ,,; ) the space more inward them the veil, equivalent to `the space within the veil,' i. e. the Holy of holies, figuratively used of heaven, as the true abode of God, ; in a similar figurative way the body of Christ is called
katapevtasma, in (Heb.) , because, as the veil had to be removed in order that the high priest might enter the most holy part of the earthly temple, so the body of Christ had to be removed by his death on the cross, that an entrance might be opened into the fellowship of God in heaven.*