The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom — the temple curtain (the inner veil separating the Holy of Holies from the rest of the temple, or the outer curtain visible from outside) tears from top to bottom at the moment of Jesus' death. From top to bottom communicates divine origin — a human tearing would go from bottom to top. The tearing is the enacted theology of Hebrews 10:19–20: access to the presence of God is opened through Jesus' death. The curtain that marked the boundary between human and divine space is torn, permanently, by the death of the mediator.

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