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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. X. Dec. 8. '60. 



man in this county was lately called upon to bap- 

 tize a child by the name of " Tiberias," or, as the 

 sponsors pronounced it, " Tibbeyriah;" and in the 

 will of Anne AUport, sen., of Cannock, co. Staf- 

 ford, dated March 25, 1637, mention is made of 

 " my son-in-law Deliverance Fennyhouse." 



W. A. Leighton. 

 Shrewsbury. 



AxLUSioN TO Habakkuk (2"^ S. X. 386.)— The 

 passage alluded to in the old Christmas Carol is 

 not to be found in the Hebrew, nor in the present 

 Latin Vulgate ; nor, of course, in any versions 

 translated from the same. It is to be found, how- 

 ever, in the Septuagint, and the very ancient 

 Latin versions which were translated from the 

 Greek. It occurs in the 3rd chapter, 2nd verse, 

 and may be rendered thus : " In the midst of two 

 animals Thou shalt be known." I will give the 

 whole verse as it stands in the Septuagint : — 



" Kupie €i<ra/c^icoa ttji/ axoriv <rov, Kai i<f>oPi^dr)v ' KaTevori<ra 

 TO. epya. <TOV, koX e^i<TTi)V ' iv jneVw 8vo ^uyiav yvuxTOiqa-r], iv Tta 

 eyYifeif to. err) ejriycoxjffriCTTj ' iu to) jrapelvai. tov Katpov ava- 

 6eiX^<n7 * ei/ tw Tapax^rjvai, ttjv t^vxO'' f-O'^t i" opYH ^«'ovs 

 fiV7jo-0^cr]7." 



According to Eusebius and others, the literal 

 sense of this refers to Cyrus and Darius, who are 

 compared to two animals such as the ass and the 

 camel (Isaiah xxi. 7.), and in the interval be- 

 tween them, the fulfilment of the Lord's promise 

 shall be made manifest to the world. But it is in 

 the allegorical sense, as refiM-ring to our infant 

 Saviour laid in a manger between an ox and an 

 ass that many of the Fathers have expounded this 

 Greek text, such as Origen (^Ilom. 13 in Luc), St. 

 Ambrose {in Luc. 2), St. Jerome {ep. 27 ad 

 Hustoch.), St. Augustine (contra Judoeos, c. 13), 

 St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Gregory Nazianzen 

 (Oral, in Xi. Nat.), St. Cyril of Jerusalem (Cat. 

 12), Paulinus (ep. 10 ad S.ever.), and others. From 

 the remotest period it has been always a pious 

 traditionary opinion that the two animals between 

 which our Lord was placed at Bethlehem were an 

 ox and an ass ; founded likewise on the allegori- 

 cal interpretation of Isaiah i. 3., " The ox hath 

 known his owner, and the ass his master's crib." 



In the Roman breviary, on the Feast of our 

 Lord's Circumcision, we find an ancient Respon- 

 sorium at the end of the Sixth Lesson at Matins, 

 which is in fact a translation from the Septuagint. 

 And in the service for Good Friday there is near 

 the commencement the following " Tractus," as 

 may be seen in the Missal : — 



" Domine, audivi auditum tuum et timui ; consideravi 

 opera tua, et expavi. In medio duorum animalium in- 

 notesceris ; dura appropinquaverint aimi cognosceris ; dum 

 advenerit tempus ostenderis. In eo dum conturbata fue- 

 rit anima mea, in irS, misericordias memor eris." 



This, it will be seen, is a literal transliation of 

 the above A'^erse of the LXX., and is, in fact, an 

 extract from a very ancient version. Considering 

 the day on which this is recited, however, it would 



seem that the Church on this occasion, in alluding 

 to our Lord being made manifest between two 

 animals, refers to His being crucified between two 

 thieves. " Et inter sceleratos reputatus est." 



^ John Williams. 

 Arno's Court, near Bristol. 



Mr. Sedding's Query is answered by the ren- 

 dering of part of the second verse of Hab. iii. in 

 the LXX. : iv ij.ecrci> Svai ^d>wv yvwaB^a-ri. Our trans- 

 lation follows the original, revive . . .in the midst of 

 the years. The cause of the variation in the LXX. 

 is easy to explain. The word yvuadrjart has no 

 equivalent in the Hebrew. A slight variation iu 

 the two words translated by us revive and years, 

 would give the meaning of tioo, and living things 

 or animals. The Arabic, as is generally the case, 

 follows the LXX. ; but no other version agrees 

 with it. J. J. 



Cardonnel and the Duke of Monmouth (2"* 

 S. X. 239.) — How was Mansfeldt Cardonnel, " a 

 grandson of the Duke of Monmouth, and not a 

 distant relation of Oliver Cromwell? " The for- 

 mer descent must have been by an illegitimate 

 channel, or it would appear in Douglas's Peerage 

 of Scotland, by Wood : which it does not. 



J. G. N-. 



Inscription (2""^ S. x. 368.) — The inscription 

 to which your correspondent refers is to be seen 

 at the principal entrance of that splendid old man- 

 sion, Montacute House, near Yeovil, Somerset- 

 shire. Murray's Handbook gives it thus : — 



" . . Through this wide opening gate, 

 None come too early, none return too late." 



This, it will be seen, slightly differs from the lines 

 as quoted in the Query — " return" vice "depart." 

 Which is the correct reading I cannot say ; for, 

 although I have passed within view of the vener- 

 able edifice in travelling, yet I have had no op- 

 portunity of reading the original. " Depart " 

 would seem to be the more suitable word. 



This gives me occasion to remark how frequently 

 and easily sentences, which are considered worthy 

 of quotation, are altered by use. Many instances 

 could be produced. For example, the sentence 

 in honour of Sir Christopher Wren in St. Paul's, 

 is never, I think, quoted as it actually stands. 

 Generally it is cited, "si monumentum quaeris, 

 circumspice." Whereas, unless my memory greatly 

 deceives me, it stands thus — " si monumentum 

 inquiris, circumspice." John Wii.tjams. 



Arno's Court. 



" Welcome to all through this wide- opening gate. 

 None come too early, or depart too late." 



Mr. Phillott may identify this inscription in 

 the arch of the gate at Montacute House, near 

 Yeovil, on the border of Dorsetshire. It is a fine 

 old Elizabethan mansion that has been for some 

 centuries in the family of Phelips of Montacute 



