(03-28-2024, 02:29 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: DISRAELI - "Horns of the altar"Horns keep cropping up in the Old Testament, and I regard them as a symbol of power, probably inspired by the horns of bulls.Hence the scene in 1 Kings ch22 where the false prophet Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had horns of iron made for himself (or may have kept them as a permanent prop) so that he could act out the Syrians being pushed away in battle.
In the old Roman Catholic pre-Vatican II Latin Missal regarding the "horns" of the altar...
There are no horns on the Roman Catholic altar.
So, what does the expression mean?
On those old altars, why are they there?
Do you happen to know what those horns symbolised?
Just curious.
The Lamb of Revelation ch5 has seven of them, and the second beast of ch13 has "the horns of a lamb" in imitation.
The westen European designers of the Catholic altar were not part of the same cultural world. And in any case, that piece of furniture was originally supposed to be a table, for the celebration of a meal.