Let us remember that when we talk of the rendering of the veil we are speaking in a figure, and the thought of it is poetical, almost pleasant, but in actuality there is nothing pleasant about it. In human experience that veil is made of living spiritual tissue; it is composed of the sentient, quivering stuff of which our whole beings consist, and to touch it is to touch us where we feel pain. To tear it away is to injure us, to hurt us and make us bleed. To say otherwise is the make the cross no cross and death no death at all. It is never fun to die. To rip through the fear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful. Yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it what the cross would do to every man to set him free.
