the Lord and burn incense.”1 The idea, indeed, that the high-priest went within the veil to pray has no clear foundation in Scripture. The incense which he carried within the veil was not so much to symbolise his prayers as to be a cloud between him and that glory of the Divine Presence upon which it was impossible for any one to look and live. There is no evidence that he there prayed. He simply completed the offering which he had begun immediately before; and, when the offering was complete, he