Exodus 26:7 (WEB)
“You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.
Fathers and councils · 3
Irenaeus of Lyons
“They have carefully enumerated the curtains as being ten, declaring these a type of the ten Æons; but they have forgotten to count the coverings of skin, which were eleven in number.” — editor's note: Ex. xxvi. 7.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And the transgression of the number ten is expressed suitably in the eleven; whence also we find instructions to have been given to the effect that there should be eleven curtains of haircloth constructed in the tabernacle; for who can doubt that the haircloth has a bearing upon the expression of sin?” — editor's note: Exod. xxvi. 7.
Read the whole comment“Among the rest, curtains of haircloth were ordered to be made not ten, but eleven; because by haircloth is signified the confession of sins.” — editor's note: Exod. xxvi. 7. Cilicina; τριχίνας, Sept.
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