4. The Church Militant is also called _Sion_: because, amidst its wanderings, it expecteth the promise of a heavenly rest: for Sion signifieth _expectation_. But the Church Triumphant, our future home, the land of peace, is called Jerusalem: for Jerusalem signifieth _the vision of peace_. [Footnote 121] [Footnote 121: So the hymn in the Parisian Breviary, for the dedication of a church: Urbs beata, vera pacis Visio, Jerusalem.] Also, the church is called the _House of God_: also, sometimes, [Greek text], that is, the _Lord's House_. At others _basilica_ (in Latin, a royal palace), for the abodes of earthly kings are thus termed: and how much more fittingly our houses of prayer, the dwelling-places of the King of Kings! Again, it is called _temple_, from _tectum amplum,_ {14} where sacrifices are offered to God: and sometimes the _tabernacle of God_, because this present life is a journey, and a progress to a lasting country: and a tabernacle is an hostelrie: [Footnote 122] as will be explained when we speak of the dedication [Footnote 123] of a church. And why it is called the _Ark of the Testimony_, we shall say in the ensuing chapter, under the title Altars. Sometimes it is called _Martyrium_, when raised in honour of any martyr; sometimes _capella_ [Footnote 124] (chapel), (see under the head Priest in the second part); sometimes _coenobium_, at others _sacrificium_; sometimes _sacellum_; sometimes _the house of prayer_: sometimes _monastery_: sometimes _oratory_. Generally, however, any place set apart for prayers is called an oratory. Again, the church is called the _Body of Christ_ sometimes a _virgin_, as the Apostle saith, 'that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ': [Footnote 125] sometimes a _bride_, because Christ hath betrothed her to Himself, as saith the Gospel: 'he that hath the bride is the bridegroom': [Footnote 126] sometimes a _mother_, for daily in baptism she beareth sons to God: sometimes a _daughter_, according to that saying of the Prophet, 'Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children': [Footnote 127] sometimes a _widow_, because 'she sitteth solitary through her afflictions, and, like Rachel, will not be comforted.' Sometimes she is set forth under the emblem of an _harlot_, because she is called out of many nations, and because she closeth not her bosom against any that return to her. [Footnote 122: Compare Cicero de Senect. xxiii. Et ex vita ita discedo tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo: commorandi enim Natura diversorium nobis, non habitandi dedit.] [Footnote 123: Chapter vi, sect. 5, ad fin.] [Footnote 124: Durandus, II. 10. 8. 'In many places, priests be called chaplains. For of old the Kings of France, when they went forth to war, carried with them the Cope of Blessed Martin, which was kept in a certain tent (where Mass was said), and from the cope (cappa) the tent was called chapel (capella).'