An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences : comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution (1887)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson) · Philadelphia : L.H. Everts · leaf 802
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 toliave 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 Duvidic. 1. The Anti-Sinaitic tabernacle was thetent used, perhaps…
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