The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-08
DId Hoses Have IIornss

Intelligence.
Under this .i%nterrogatory in the ~
rELLIaRSsRR Of last Monday appeared a
short article from some one who signs him
self al. Gardiner"
This gentleman has been reading in the
.vuIcate Ia Latin translation Of the Scrip
lures, and the only one that the Catholic
Church receives Us authentic In Exodus
S4th chapter, 90lh verse, he meets with
what he seems to regard q strange state
ment. The verse reads us follows IN
Lain:
"Comg,e descenderet MOyes dc monte SINAI,
teneLdi duaS iabuLds teaimOnH d tgnordodt
qu0d cOrnutn eSci fdcieS."
The St. James translation Of this verse
reads as follows:
"Andi it came to pass when Moses came
down from Mt. Sinai with the two tables
Of testimony in Moses hand, when he
came down from the mount that Moses
wist not that the skin OF his face shone
while He talked with him."
Now as to the word Cornuta, which in
in the article l refer to, was rendered
horned. This is a correct translation ofthe
word, and Gardiner is not the only man
who has SO understood Il. Michael An
cello has a painting Of Moses in the Vati-
can at Rome, and that eminent sculptor
and painter has presented the great Law
Giver with horns. :,
Among ancient classic writers, ms well
MS in the Old Testament, the term horn
was a symbol Of strength, power and
glory, brightness, rays, .&c.--e 3, land
his brightness was as the light: he had
Horns coming out OF his hand" (Hab.
Sd chap, 4th verse;, which signifies that
there were refulgent beams issuing from
the hollow OF his hand. :,
Imagine that Gardiner knows as well
as any one else how, or in what sense,
%cornuta, as applied to the face OF Moses, Is
to be taken. While there may be some
people in the world who could be made to
believe that Moses face bristled with
horns Ctor they believe more incredible
things), yet l don't think that Gardiner
could be made to swallow such a story,
even though it were endorsed by an infal.
lible Pope.
My object in meddling in this affair is
simply TO raise a voice against Bishop
Kain's intolerant and discourteous treat
ment OF Gardeners article in Mondays
paper. 1t does not matter who the author
NAV be. 1t is quite evident that he is a
man OF some scholarship, and 1t is nothing
to his discredit II so be that he is a shoe
.Ia. VIC p.as;Jant WtlSaa uuau knntyn
once as the "Natick Cobbler," and yet he
didn't follow the Bishops advice, aud
stick TO his last" but became first an
eminent Senator, and afterwards filled
with great honor to himself the second
place in the nation. l have known some
men who, even though shoemakers, could
have been trusted with millions OF dollars
and | have heard OF q robed and mitred
archbishop who brought shame upon him
self and his office, and misery upon great
numbers OF coniiding poor, by the way ht
disposed OF their money.
Let u man stand on his merits, BIO he q
stonebreaker or u soap boiler, or what not
What does it matter? 1t is the privilege
OF all men to search the Scriptures" ant
to comment on them, II need be, in
manner to draw out information. The
Bishops church does not believe this doc.
trine, 1 know. There they are expected
to go 1t blind, and take second hand what
is doled out tothem. In this country and
in this age people read and think fol
themselves, and thus the world makes
progress out OF darkness into light.
TO Gardeners question as to whether
the Vulgate is a translation from the Sep
tuagint, We find that st. Jerome made hi
version from the Septuagint, butdid notal
together ignore in his workth old or com
mon Latin version. Hence the name Vul
gate.
While it is admitted that Jerome is one
OF the most scholarly OF the Latin fathers
yet for some reason or other, as Bishop
Kahn knows, ne, in his commentaries
gives meanings to certain terms differen
from those given in his translation OF the
Bible, CRgDo.