At that time it was a sin not to celebrate the feast of tabernacles;14 now it is not a sin. But not to be part of the tabernacle of God, which is the Church, is always a sin. Then, however, the symbolism was acted out under a commandment, but now we read about its revelation in a testimony. For what was done then would not be called the tabernacle of testimony if it did not by some appropriate meaning attest to some truth that was to be made known in its own time. To patch linen with purple and to