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1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. xcj^v Christe hath brought vs all in into the inner temple within the vayle or forehanginge, and vnto the mercy stole of God.

1618 Bp. T. Morton Def. Innocencie Three Ceremonies 5 But Christ being dead, to bring life to mankind, raised himselfe from death, ascended, entred within the veile, and hath taken possession of the Celestiall Mansions.

1695 S. Slater Funeral Serm. William Rathband 26 The good Lord enable you by being with you while you walk in the valley of the shadow of Death.., giving you to look within the veil, and to see your Advocate and Mediator Jesus at the right hand of God ready to receive you.

a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1777) I. ii. 113 So our Lord Jesus Christ having shed his own blood, entered within the vail into heaven, the true holy of holies.

1790 Edinb. Mag. Apr. 275/2 In the spirit of devotion, and on the wings of faith, they rise from earth to Heaven; they pierce beyond the clouds, and enter within the veil.

1856 H. B. Stowe Dred II. xii. 127 The strongest hearts, which never stand still for any mortal terror, have sometimes hushed their very beating at a breath of a whisper from within the veil.

1877 A. J. Ross Mem. A. Ewing xxx. 521 In March, 1870, Thomas Erskine passed on within the veil.

1918 H. T. Kerr Supreme Gospel viii. 148 Faith has this quality—that it can lift us into fellowship with the Unseen, that it can carry us within the veil.

2009 Oroville (Calif.) Mercury Reg. (Nexis) 27 Nov. Jesus is a forerunner, the first begotten,..the first to enter that which is ‘within the veil’, the first to rise from the dead.