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| The Church Intermediate Between the Shadows of the Law and the Realities of Heaven.
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Chapter VII.—The Church
Intermediate Between the Shadows of the Law and the Realities of
Heaven.
If the law, according to the apostle, is
spiritual, containing the images “of future good
things,”2655
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Heb. x. 1. The apostle says, “a
shadow,” and “not the very image.” The
difference, however, is verbal only.—Tr. | come then, let
us strip off the veil of the letter which is spread over it, and
consider its naked and true meaning. The Hebrews were commanded
to ornament the Tabernacle as a type of the Church, that they might be
able, by means of sensible things, to announce beforehand the image of
divine things. For the pattern which was shown to Moses2656
in the mount, to
which he was to have regard in fashioning the Tabernacle, was a kind of
accurate representation of the heavenly dwelling, which we now perceive
more clearly than through types, yet more darkly than if we saw the
reality. For not yet, in our present condition, has the truth
come unmingled to men, who are here unable to bear the sight of pure
immortality, just as we cannot bear to look upon the rays of the
sun. And the Jews declared that the shadow of the image (of the
heavenly things which was afforded to them), was the third from the
reality; but we clearly behold the image of the heavenly order; for the
truth will be accurately made manifest after the resurrection, when we
shall see the heavenly tabernacle (the city in heaven “whose
builder and maker is God”2657
) “face to
face,” and not “darkly” and “in
part.”2658
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