Theophrastus, quoted by Josephus {Ap. i^ 23), no- tices the system, miscalling it a Pboenician ciistc»L but in naming the word eorhan identifies it with Ji^- ism. Josephus {War, ii, 9, 4) calls the treasury in which offerings for the Temple or its services were de^ posited, Kop^vaq, corhanat; and Matthew (xxvii, €) uses the same word to signify the treasury, saytaf that the chief priests did not think it lawful to put the money of Judas into it (f cc rov Kop^avav) (Bing~ Oriff. Eccl. V, 4, 2). Origen's account of the ( system is that children sometimes refused to parento on the ground that they had already ccd- tributed to the poor fund, tnim which they idleged their parento might be relieved. In the early Chaicfa. oblations were presented monthly, and they were al- ways voluntorily placed fai the treasury. ' Baronia? thinks this treasury was called corban, becans« Cyprian uses the word when he speaks of the offerings'of t]^ people, rebuking a rich matron for coming to celebfate the Eucharist without any regard to the coriaa, Se« Alms.
Corned (Xop/3/, Vulg. Chordba), one of the cs^itrv^ Jews whose *' sons" (to the number of 705) are «*t«— < to have returned from Babylon (1 Esdr. v, 12) ; appar> ently the Zaccai (q. v.) of the Hebrew lists (Ezra ii. 9; Neh. vii,14).
Corbel (Fr. corbetUe, a basket), in Gothic architec- ture a projecting stone or timber to bear the superin- cumbent weight, usually of some architectuial o^ ber of the structure, as the ribs or groins of an arch.
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Qreat Tariety is used in omamentiiig the corbel, it representing Bometimee an animal, a human being, a plant, or a groap of mooldings. See Coprao.
Corbel'table, a row of corbels supporting a cor- nice, parget) or other projecting part of a wall.
Corbey Manuscript (Codex Corhtimtia, so call- ed from the abbey of Corbie or Corbey, in Picaxdy [see below], which once contained it), the name of a very ancient MS., or, rather, of two partially confused codi- ces of the Gospels in the Old Latin version.
1. A MS. from which Martianay edited Matthew (in bis Vvlgata ArUiqua Latkta^ etc.. Par. 1695), and which is /epeated by Blanchini (in his Evangelariwn Quad- rupUx). Satwtier gives its various readings, but seems to confound it with the following.
2. A MS. defective in the first eleven chapters of Matthew. Its readings are cited in the three other Gospels by Blanchini, and throughout by Sabatier.
Tliese texts (wliich are designated respectively as ff* and fP of the Gospeb) are mixed; they occasion- ally preserve good readings, but there is much officious revision (see Scrivener, Introd, to N. T, p. 267). See Manuscripts, Biblical.
Corbie (jCorbeja Anitqua, also called Aurea and GaUiea)^ a Benedictine monastery in Picardy, France, built in 667 by St. BathUdis, wife of king Clovis II and mother of Clotaire III. The first monks in Cor- bie were Anglo-Saxons fh)m Luxenil, the monastery of St. Columban. Corbie remained one of the most prominent monasteries of the Benedictine order. An oflUioot of Corbie was the German monastery at Cor- ^y (q- V.).— Wetaer u.Welte, Kirch.'Lex, ii, 872.
Corbie^teps, the steps up the gable of a house ; often used with very picturesque effsct, but more com- mon in domestic than in ecclesiastical architecture.
Corbinian, Saint, bom at Chartres in 680, was for fourteen years a hermit, and then went to Rome, ▼here the pope, Gregory II, consecrated him bishop. He returned to his solitude, and afterwards travelled along the Danube and the Isar to preach. Duke The- odo II of Bavaria appointed hun first bishop of Freis- ing. He died in 780, and is commemorated as a saint on Sept. 8.— Pierer, Univenal-Lexihon, s. v. ; Butler, Liva o/SakiUj Sept. 8.
Corbit, Israel S., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was bom in Philadelphia, Feb. 16, 1817, and entered tlie itinerancy in the New Jersey Conference hi 1844. He died at Bordentown, N. J., April 11, 1866. Mr. Corbit's nunistry, in the most im- portant stations of his Conference, was eminently suo- ^cessfnl. ** A sublimity caught fh>m long converse with the Bible and the Christian poets ran through all his thoughts. He was accomplished, eloquent, and labo- rious, and gave full proof of his ministry."— if tnitfef o/Confanaioeg, vi, 29.
Cord, the rendering in the Anth. Yer. of the fol- lowing Heb. words : (1.) usually ban, che'bel (but not ^atT), a rope [see Chbbbl] ; (2.) inj, ye'ther, a straw (" withe," Judg. xvi, 7, 8, 9 ; tenl^rope, " exceUency," Jobiv, 21; bow-" string," Psa. xi, 2; halter-** cord," Job XXX, 11) ; (8.) •nn-'O, meythar", a line (e. g. tent- lope, Exod. XXXV, 18; xxxix, 40; Num. m, 26, 87; iv, 26, 82; Isa. liv, 2; Jer. x, 20; bow.»*string," Psa. xxi, 12); (4.) nh5, abo^', a braid (e. g. ** wreath- ed" work, Exod. xxviii, 14, etc. ; ** band," Job xxxix, 10; Ezek. iii, 26 ; iv, 8 ; Hos. xi, 4 ; ** rope," Judg. xv, 18, 14; Psa. ii, 8; cxviii, 27; cxxix, 4); (5.) I3!in, <^ (Eccl. iv, 12, a ''thread," Gen. xiv, 28; Josh, ii, 18; Judff. xvi, 12; Cant iv, 8; **line," 1 Kings vii, 15 ; " fillet," Jer. Iii, 21). The first of these terms is the most comprehensive, being fh)m the root ban, to {*«<, hence EngL cable. This word occurs often in its proper sense, as well as in the ^>ecial meanings of [