The Tentmakers

...et inveniens quemdam Judæum nomine Aquilam, Ponticum genere, qui nuper venerat ab Italia, et Priscillam uxorem ejus, eo quod præcepisset Claudius discedere omnes Judæos a Roma, accessit ad eos. Et quia ejusdem erat artis, manebat apud eos, et operabatur. Erant autem scenofactoriæ artis. Quasi exsules in terra et peregrini, tentoria sibi, quibus in via utantur, aedificant; σκῆναι Graece tabernacula dicuntur, etymologiam ab obumbrando ducentia, apid quous umbra σκία dicitur, σκῆναι  autem vel σκήνωματα, quasi umbracula sonant, quae sagis laneis vel ligneis aut cilicinis, sive ex arborum frondibus aut virgultis veteres componebant. Mystice autem, sicut Petrus piscando, nos a fluctibus saeculi per retia fidei extrabit, ita Paulus umbracula protectionis erigendo, ab imbre nos criminum, ab ardore tentationum, et a ventis insidiarum verbo factisque defendit. Sanctus Beda, Super Acta Apostolorum Expositio, Caput XVIII Source:  Migne PL 92.981c

'...and Paul discovering a Jew named Aquila, who was born in Pontus, and who, with his wife Priscilla, had lately come from Italy, when Claudius decreed that all Jews should leave Rome, he paid them a visit, and since they practiced the same craft he stayed and worked with them. For they were tentmakers.' 1 As exiles and wanderers on the earth they constructed tents for themselves, which are useful on the way. Tents in Greek is 'skeenai', and etymologically the word is derived from 'giving shade', for shadow is 'skia 'in Greek, and 'skeenai' or 'skeenomata' means that which gives shade, things which in the past were made with strips of wool or wood or animal hides or from the leaves of trees and branches. Now mystically, as Peter was a fisherman who draws us up from the waves of the world with the net of faith, so Paul raises up a place of shade, that he may protect us from the rains of errors and the heat of trials and the winds of the deceitful, both in words and deeds. Saint Bede, Commentary on the Acts of The Apostles, Chap 18 1 Acts 18.2-3