An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences: comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution (1874)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1808-1881 · Philadelphia : Moss & Co. · leaf 804
led to knowhow far the Masonic is connected with theSinaitic edifice. The word tabernacle means a tent. It isthe diminutive of taberna, and was used bythe Romans to denote a soldiers tent. Itwas constructed of planks and covered withskins, and its outward appearance presentedthe precise form of the… … shape it resembled a tent, and is supposed tohave derivedits form fromthe tents usedby the patri-archs duringtheir nomad-ic life. There arethree taberna-cles mentionedin Scripturehistory — the Anti-Sinaitic, the Sinaitic,and the Davidic. 1. The Anti-Sinaitic tabernacle v^as thetent used, perhaps…
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