raelites the latter was resumed. The evidence is con- clusive to identify Kenath with the modern Kundivat (Porter, Hand-book, ii, 90) (Kitto\ Ewald {Gesck. Isr. ii, 268, note 2) identities the Nobah of (iideon's pursuit with Nophah of Numb, xxi, 30, and distinguishes them both from Nobah of Numb, xxxii, 42, on the ground of their being mentioned with Dibon, Medeba, and Jog- behah. But if Jogbehah be, as he elsewhere (ii, 504, note 4) suggests, el-Jebeibeh, between Amman and es- Salt, there is no necessity for the distinction. In truth the lists of Gad and IJeuben in Numb, xxxii are so con- fused that it is difficult to apportion the towns of each in accordance with our present imperfect topographical knowledge of those regions. Ewald also (ii, 392 note) identities Nobah of Numb, xxxii, 42 with Nawa or Neve, a place fifteen or sixteen miles east of the north end of the Lake of Gennesaret (Bitter, Jordan, p. 356). But if Kenath and Nobah are the same, and Kunuwat be Kenath, the identification is both unnecessary and un- tenable (Smith). Schwartz {I^dest. p. 223) likewise finds Nobah in the village Kunath, in the mountain of Hauran, one day's journey north of Tell-Hauran. See Kenath.
Nobili, PoBERTO De (in Latin deNobilibus), an Ital- ian Jesuit, noted as a missionary, was born at Mont Pulciano, in Tuscany, in Sept., 1577. He was a relative of pope ^larcellus II. and nephew of the celebrated car- dinal Bellarmine. Nobili studied at Pome and at Naples, and in 1590 joined the Jesuits, who sent him as a mis- sionary to India. Arrived in Asia, he at once applied himself to the study of the Oriental languages, and in a short time acquired a good command of the Badaga, Bengalee, Malabar, and Tamul dialects, the most gener- ally used in India. He now commenced preaching in the southern provinces; and, in order to gain more influ- ence, he did not hesitate to represent himself as a for- eign Brahman. He assumed the dress and practiced the customs of that class, and thus succeeded in converting to what the Jesuits call Christianity a certain number of natives. Some of his colleagues, however, accused him of practices closely resembling idolatry. The affair was carried before the court of Pome. Nobili secured the approbation of the inquisitors at Goa and of the archbishop of Cranganor. and gained his cause ; pope Gregory XV authorized the converted (?) Brahmans to continue to wear the marks and the dress of their caste. This toleration naturalh' increased the number of adhe- rents to the mission. In 1651 Nobili retired to the col- lege of Malpoora, where he died, Jan. 16, 1656. Accord- ing to Sotwell. he wrote in the different languages which he was acquainted with, Catcchismus ad Gentilium con- versionem in partem V dirisus : — Scientia anim(v, liber in quo, prceter catholicte Jidei veritatis ad animam perti- nentes, omnes Orientis errores, circa fat um et ti-ansmiyra- tionem animarum, confutanfur: — Ajmloyia contra proba qum adversus legem L>ei ab ethnicis objiciimtur, uhi eadem objecta in eorum sectas apte retorquentur : — Liber deSig- nis verm legis utilissimus : — Lucerna spiritvalis : — De vita (Eterna : — De Fide pro insiittundis pucris : — Com- pendiu7n catechismi: — Dialogus in quo transmigi-atio anima ni m imp ugn atur : — Regu Ice perfectiords : — I 'it a B. ]\ 3fari(e versa Tamuliro.quce in omnibus locis et ab omni hominum gevere cantari solit,pro consolatione animarum suarum : — Opuscula : — Condones variw, etc. ]\Ir. Weiss, together witli the Hindus of Pondicherrj', considers No- bili as the author of the Ezurvedani, a modern imita- tion of the Vedas. See Parigi, Notizie de' Cardinale R.de Nobili, etc. (1836); Sotwell, Bibliotheca Societatli ye.'!/, p. 724-725 ; Francis Ellis, in Asiatic Researches, vol. xiv ; Jouvency, Hist, des Jesuites ; Lettres edifantes, X, 72 (ed. 1781) ; Norbert. Memoires historiques sur les missions dn Malabar, ii, 145; Hase, Ch. Hist. p. 472; Ranke, Hist, of the Papacy, ii, 95; Amer. Presb. Rev. Oct. 1869, ]>. 678. (J. N. P.)
Nobilibus. See Nobili.
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words of the Roman Catholic prayer used in the celebra- tion of the mass in behalf of those \s-ho may attend the celebrant at the time. The ceremony in this part of the mass is as follows :
"He strikes his breast with his right hand, sayiu" with his voice a little raised [the prayer beginuint;] ' Nobis qno- que peccatoribus' [which is thus translated] : 'To us also sinners, hoping from the multitude of thy compassions, mayst thou deign to give some part and fellowship with thy holy apostles and martyrs; with John, Stephen, Mat- thias, Barnabas, Ignatius, Alexander, Marcelliuus, Peter, Felicitas, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucia, Agues, Cecilia, Ana- stasia, and all thy saints ; into whose society, we beseech thee, not as an appraiser of merit, but as a bestower of pardon, do thou admit ns. (Hejoins his hands.) Through Christ our Lord. Through whom, Lord, thou dost always create (he now makes the sign of the cross thrice over the host and the chalice, at the same time saying), sanctify, vivify, bless, and give to us all these good things. (lie nncDvers the chalice, kneels, takes the host with his right hand, holding the chalice with his left; thrice he makes the sign of the cross with the host from one lip of the chalice to the other, saying). Through him, and with him, and in him (twice he makes the sign of the cross between the chalice and his breast), there is to thee. Almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost (he raises the chal- ice a little with the host, and says), all lionor and glory. (He replaces the host [wipes his fingers, if necessary], covers the chalice, kneels, rises, chants, or reads), World without end. (Answer.) Amen. (Hejoins his hands.) Let us pray: admonished by salutary precepts, and direct- ed by divine instruction, we dare to say.' The celebrant theu extends his hands, and says or sings the Lord's Pray- er, and is answered at the end with a rerpetition of the last petition, 'But deliver us from evil.' The 'canon of the mass,' propeily so called, ends with the prayer preceding the Lord's Prayer; but the next part, which is the i)repa- ration f<n- and receiving of the communion, is now also included in the cauou."