σκῆνος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=σκήνους, τό ([[Hippocrates]], [[Plato]], others), a tabernacle, a [[tent]], [[everywhere]] ([[except]] Boeckh, Corpus inscriptions vol. ii., no. 3071) used [[metaphorically]], of the [[human]] [[body]], in [[which]] the [[soul]] dwells as in a [[tent]], and [[which]] is taken down at [[death]]: ἡ [[ἐπίγειος]] [[ἡμῶν]] [[οἰκία]] τοῦ σκήνους, i. e. ho esti τό [[σκῆνος]] (Winer's Grammar, § 59,7d., 8a.), [[which]] is the [[well-known]] [[tent]], ibid. 1 (R. V. the [[earthly]] [[house]] of [[our]] tabernacle). Cf. [[Plato]]) Tim. Locr., p. 100ff and [[often]] in [[other]] [[philosophic]] writings; cf. Fischer, Index to [[Aeschines]] [[dial]]. Socrates; Passow, [[under]] the [[word]]; (Field, Otium Norv. pars iii., p. 113 (on 2 Corinthians 5:1)).