Church And Tabernacle

Sequitur nunc figura tabernaculi, quod, jubente Domino, Moyses fabricare jubetur. Tabernaculum hoc per allegoriam Ecclesia est in hujus vitae eremo constituta, de qua Psalmista ait: Quoniam abscondit me in tabernaculo suo in die malorum. Variis itaque speciebus tabernaculum instruitur, partim pretiosis, partim vilioribus; per quod monstratur alios sanctos, alios peccatores esse in Ecclesia. Fideles autem omnes intra corpus Ecclesiae constitutos, infideles vero extra sinum collocatos. Sanctus Isidorus Hispalensis,Mysticorum Expositiones Sacramentorum Seu Quaestiones In Vetus Testamentum, In Exodum, Caput LI Source: Migne PL 83.294d-295b Now follows the form of the tabernacle that by the order of the Lord Moses was commanded to make. 1 By allegory the tabernacle is the Church established in the desert of this life, concerning which the Psalmist says, 'Because He took me into his tabernacle on the day of evil. ' 2 Thus with various appearances the tabernacle is built up, partly with precious things and partly with vile things, by which it is shown that in the Church some are holy and some are sinners. For all the faithful are established within the body of the Church, but the faithless are set outside. Saint Isidore of Seville, Expositions of Sacred Mysteries or Questions on the Old Testament, On Exodus, Chap 51 1 Exod 25-27 2 Ps 26.5