A WORD A DAY.
TABERNACLE. Although the word is frequently applied to a house of worship which has a large auditorium, it originally referred to a tent used as a shelter or as a temple. Our word is derived from the Latin tabernaculum, a diminutive of taberna, “a hut, shed.” It is worthy of our, particular notice that there is an underlying thought of temporariness; in fact, until comparatively recently “tabernacle” was the 'term used to describe a slightly built or temporary abode, or, as Webster puts‘it, “a transient habitation.” In this connection it,is interesting to study its use as applied to the human body. Tab-er-na-cle is accented on the first syllable; sound first a as in hat, e as in maker, second a as in ask (not as in tack), cle as k’f. “We that are in this tabernacle,do groan, being burdened; not for that we'would be unclothed, but clothed upon', that mortality might be swallowed up of life.” (II Corinthians 5:4.)
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Southland Times, Issue 21091, 24 May 1930, Page 8
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163A WORD A DAY. Southland Times, Issue 21091, 24 May 1930, Page 8
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