bishoprics be found?

HENRY KERSLEY.


_Why Moses represented with Horns_.--Your correspondent H.W. (Vol. i, p.
420.) refers the origin of what he calls the strange practice of making
Moses appear horned to a mistranslation in the Vulgate. I send you an
extract from Coleridge which suggests something more profound the such
an accidental cause; and explains the statement of Rosenmüller (p.
419.), that the Jews attributed horns to Moses "figuratively for
power:"--

"When I was at Rome, among many other visits to the tomb of
Julius II, I went thither once with a Prussian artist, a man of
great genius and vivacity of feeling. As we were gazing on
Michael Angelo's Moses, our conversation turned on the horns and
beard of that stupendous statue of the necessity of each to
support the other; of the superhuman effect of the former, and
the necessity if the existence of both to give a harmony and
_integrity_ both to the image and the feeling excited by it.
Conceive them removed, and the statue would become _un_natural
without being _super_natural. We called to mind the horns of the
rising sun, and I repeated the noble passage from Taylor's _Holy
Dying_. That horns were the emblem of power and sovereignty
among the Eastern nations; and are still retained as such in
Abyssinia; the Achelous of the ancient Greeks; and the probable
ideas and feelings that originally suggested the mixture of the
human and the brute form in the figure, by which they realised
the idea of their mysterious Pan, as representing intelligence