Hebrews 10:20

By the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.

The new and living way properly denotes the means of access through Christ by believers into the very presence of God. It was a NEW WAY because: (1) only recently, in the historical sense, had it been made available; (2) it was an essential feature of the new covenant; (3) it is never subject to change or decay, being thus eternally new; and it is a LIVING WAY because: (1) it is through the eternally living Saviour that access exists, not through blood of dead animals; (2) it leads to newness of life for them that travel in it (Romans 6:4); and (3) it provides a way of living that culminates at last in eternal life, contrasting with all other ways which may be described as dead, dead-end streets that lead only to the grave.

Through the veil, that is to say, his flesh is a reference to the typical nature of the veil that separated the sanctuary from the most holy place, plainly said here to typify the flesh of Christ. See under "Veil" in my comments on Hebrews 9.

One needs to take note of the difficulty fancied by some commentators with reference to how the veil can represent the flesh of Christ, since the veil concealed the presence of God, and Christ in the flesh reveals that presence. It cannot be true that Jesus' incarnation conceals a knowledge of God, it being the precise intention of the incarnation to reveal God, not to conceal him. Westcott, particularly, finds this very difficult, and several scholars have followed his learned opinion; however, the difficulty does not exist for this writer. The so-called problem is quickly resolved by consideration of the dramatic fact that it was not merely the veil that represented Christ, but the rent veil! The sundered veil did not obscure or conceal anything. The perfect support of this understanding of the matter lies in the very verse before us. That typical veil which concealed for such a long time the way into the holy of holies at last parted asunder; and it thereby became in that miraculous event the perfect type of the rending of the flesh of Jesus, through which the way into heaven itself is opened up and revealed to people.