It may be regarded as certain that in so frequently choosing for himself the designation of "the Son of man" (in all fidly fifty times), our Lord had respect to the representation in Daniel. It was the title under which, with a few rare exceptions, he uniformly spoke of himself; and it is remarkable how, when acquiescing in his right to be acknowledged by others in the most peculiar sense " the Son of God," he sometimes imme- diately after substituted for this the wonted designation of " the Son of man" (John i, 49-51 ; Matt, xxvi, 63, 64), as if to show that what belonged to the Son of God might equally be affirmed (when the terms were rightly understood) of the Son of man. This comes out with peculiar force in the latter of the two passages re- ferred to; for no sooner had our Lord confessed to the adjuration of the high-priest as to his being the Son of God than he added, " Hereafter ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven, "appropriating the very language in Daniel's vision, and asserting of himself as Son of man what belonged to him as the fellow of Godhead. Along with and behind the attribution of humanity, which he loved to place in the foreground, there lay the heaven- ly majesty. Hence, while the epithet in question may well enough be understood to imply that Jesus was " the ideal man" (which is all that rationalistic interpreters would find in it), it includes much more than that : it makes him known as the new man, who had come from heaven, and in whom, because in him the Word was made flesh, manhood had attained to the condition in which it could fulfil the high destiny of exercising lord- ship for God over "the world to come" (Heb. ii, 5).
By this title, then, to use the words of Luthardt, "Jesus, on the one side, includes himself among other men — he is one of our race; while, on the other, he thereby exalts himself above the whole race besides, as in a truly exclusive sense the Son of mankind, its genu- ine Offspring — tlie one Man towards whom the whole history of the human race was tending, in whom it found its unity, and in whom history finds its turning- point as the close of the old and the commencement of the new aera." But this, coupled with the authority and power of judgment which he asserts for himself over all flesh as the Son of man, bespeaks his posses- sion of the divine as well as of the human nature. " No rationalistic ideal of virtue can avail us here. To call Jesus the mere prototype and prefigurement of mankind will not suffice to justify such language; we are con- strained to quit the limits of humanity, and to look for the root of his being, the home of his nature and life, in God himself to explain the possibility of such declara- tions. The absolute relation to the world which he at- tributes to himself demands an absolute relation to God. The latter is the necessarj' postulate of the former, which cannot be properly understood but from this point of view. Only because Jesus is to God what he is can he be to us what he says. He is the Son of man, the Lord of the world, its judge, only because he is the Son of God" {Fiindaimntal Truths of Christianili/, p. 289, 290). — Fairbairn. For literature, see Hase, Leben Jesu, p. 127.
Sonargaultr, in Norse mythologj^, was the great golden boar which was placed on the table of the he- roes on every recurring Juel evening, and nimn whose back they placed their hands while making the vows which were to bind them during the ensuing year.
Soncino. This appellation designates a Jewish familv wlio won a lasting name by their early and ex- tensive enterprises in Hebrew typography. They were of (jerman origin, anil may be traced to the city of Spire, but take the name by which they are best known from Soncino, a small town in Lombardy, where they established a press, from which issued a number of valuable works in Hebrew literature, more espe- cially some of the earliest-printed Hebrew Bibles. The first production of the Soncino press is the treatise Be'
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rab'tfi. dated 148^1. a full description of which is given by l>e l!"S>i in Aiumlfg //eljneii-Tj/i>«t/nii>fiiri, »SVc. AT (i'anna', 1 "'.•.'>>. |>. -X sij. Tlie printer was .loshua Sol- onuiii U-n-Israel Nathan, who was the head of the fam- ily, and with him was associated his brother Moses, who^!e son (lerson established a j>ress at Constantinople. In the pnface the printer speaks of himself as " Gerson, a man of Soncino, the son of H. Moses, the son of the wise anil excellent H. Israel Nathan ben-.Samuel ben- Habbi Moses, beinp; of the (ifth i,'cneration from the rabbi Moses of Spirali." Soon afttr the printing of the treatise Hfntkotli this press issued iXxcfonncr and later prophets (\. e. Joshna, .ludges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah. Kzekiei, and the twelve minor prophets), with Kimchis commentary. The wliole comprises 459 leaves. The first word in Joshua, Judges, and Samuel ("n""^) is printed in large letters: in the greater and smaller prophets the first word is wanting, but a great space is left. Neither pages, chapters, nor verses are numbered: above the text the name of the book is printed. Kach page is divided into two columns; the commentary stands below the text, which has no ini- nuscular or majuscular letters, no vowels or accents. A full description of this |)art of the Old Test. (Soncino, 14^5->ii;) is given in Eichhorn's Repvrtorium, viii, 51 s<|.. together with its variations. At the same time (14W)) there appeared the five Megillotli, i. c. Canticles, Kuth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and P^sther, and also the Psalter; and two years later (1488) the hiblia lle- hftiirii Integra, cum PiinclU et Accentibiis (fol.). This is the first complete Hebrew Bible with vowel-points and accents. This Hible is verj- rare; only nine copies are known to be extJint, viz. one at Exeter College, Oxford, two at IJome, two at Florence, two at Parma, one at Vienna, and one in the Haden-Duriach Library. It has a title, but at the end of the Pentateuch we find a post- script, which seems to have been added after the com- pletion of the twenty-four books. According to Kenni- cott. this edition is said to contain more than Ti.OOO variations, which is probably an exaggeration. The firm of the .Soneini extended their operations by erect- ing i)resses at Naples, Brescia. Fano, and other places: and to their operations Jewish literature is greatly indebted. For a list of the works edited by the Soneini, see Furst. liibl. Jud. iii, 352 sq. (B. P.)