Vedius, or Vejovis, in Roman mythology, was an adciptt'd gml of the Tuscans, of dangerous activity. His frightful thiMiderbolts were precedetl by deafness to I hose whom they would strike. His temjjle was at Home, between the Capitoliiun and the Tarpoian castle. His statue represented a youthful god armed with arrows. His festival was celebrated belore March 7. Goats were sacrificed to him.
Vega, Andreas, a Franciscan of Segovia, who was present at the Council of Trent, and died in 1557, is the author of a large work De Jiislijicatione, printed at Co- loLcne in 1572. He also wrote. Comment, in aliquot Con- cilii Tridentini Decreta : — Expositio in Rer/ulam S.Eran- cisci: — Comment, in Psabnns, etc. See Antonii Bibli- otheca Hispanica ; Wadding, Bibliotkeca Scriptorum Minorum ; Jocher, A Ikjemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s. v. ; Winer, Uandbuc/i der theoloej. Literatur, i, 446. (B. P.)
Vega, Christopher de la, a Spanish Jesuit, was born in 1595 at Tafalla, in Navarre; joined the Jesuits in 1612, and acted for a number of years as professor of liliilosophy and moral theology at the college in Tara- zona; then at Valencia, where he died, June 18, 1672. He wrote, Theologia Mariana : — Comment, in Lib. Jitdi- cum : — De Maximo Maloriim Malo: — Casus Varii Con- J'essionis, etc. See Winer, Handbuch der theolog. LMe- /•«/«/■, i, 479 ; Awtonn Bibliotkeca f/ispanica; Alegambe, Bibliotkeca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu ; Jocher, Allr/e- meines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s. v. (B. P.)
Vega, Emanuel de, a Spanish Jesuit, who acted as |iri>less(ir of theology at Wilna, in Lithuania, and died at Rome, Jan. 27, 1640 or 1648, wrote, De Eucharistia : — be Missa: — De Cultu Dna<jinum et Divocutione Sanc- torum : — De Vita et Mimculis Lutkeri, Calvini et Bezce : — De Principiis Fidei: — De Distributione Eucknristice .■iub Una Specie: — Defensio ^Eterna; Ckrisli Generationix Verceque Deitatis : — Qumstiones Selectee de lAbertate Dei et llominis, de Pnedestinatioiie, de Concordia Summorum nostri Temporis Tkeologorum (Rotne, 1649). See A\q- iiain})e, Bibliotkeca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu ; Antonii Bibliotkeca Hispanica ; J ijcher, A llt/emeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s. V. (B. P.)
Veiel, Ei.iAS, a Protestant theologian of Germany, who died as superintendent and librarian at Ulm, Feb. 23. 1706, where he was born, July 20, 1635, is the author of Historia et Necessitas Rejormationis Evangel, per Luther. Institutce, ex Scrijjtis Georgii Priucip. A nkalt. -Exposila cum Narratione de Cimrersione ad Salutarem A urj. Confess. Doctrinam, etc. (Ulm, 1692). See Winer, lliindb. der theid. fJleratur, i, 741. (B. P.)
Veil (or Vail [q. v.]) is an essential article of fe- male njiparel in the East. See Dkess.
1. Original Terms. — These may be divided, for the sake of convenient and clear treatment, into several classes.
(I.) General. — The following words (which, however, are the only ones rendered '• vail" or " veil" in the A. V. as an article of dress) may be explained to be rather shawls, or mantles, which might at pleasure be drawn
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over the face, but not designed for the special purpose of veils, or for concealment of the features alone.
1. Mitpdckath (rPIDip'O, from nSIJ, to expand) de- notes the wide outer and upper garment of a female (see Schroder, /J(' I'estit. Mulier. Heb. c. 16), and is ren- dered "vail" in Ruth iii, 15; "wimple" in Isa. iii, 22. It evidently was one of the wrappers of different kinds in which the Eastern women envelop themselves when they quit their houses. These are of great amplitude, and, among the common people, of strong and coarse texture, like that in which Ruth carried home her corn (Ruth iii, 15). Tiie illustration will show how sufficient the out-door veils of the Eastern women are for such a use. See WuirLt:.
Oriental Out-door Veils.
2. Radid (1^'7'n, from t^H, to stamp out), rendered "veil" in Cant, v, 7; "vail" in Isa. iii, 23, apparently was another large and loose upper covering, probablv of finer materials, from the maimer in which it is men- tioned in these texts. The former passage shows that it was an out-door veil, whicii the laily had cast around her when she went forth to seek her beloved. See Ap- parel.
3. Tsd't/ipk (r)"^"^, from qr'^, thought by Gesenius to be = E^^, to cover up), invariably rendered "vail," is mentioned in Gen. xxiv, 65; xxxviii, 14, 19, under circimistaiices which show that it was one of those am- ple wrappers which women wore out of doors. The etymology, referred by some to the Arabic, subduplica- vit, suggests that it was "doubled" over the shoulders, or I'olded about the body, in some peculiar manner which distinguished it from other veils. It is clear that it concealed the face, as Judah could not recognise Taraar when she had wrapped herself in a tsd'i/ipk. See Robe.
4. Masvek (nipri, from HID, to hide), invariably rendered " vail," is only used of the veil which Moses assumed when he came down from the mount (Exod. xxxiv, 33-35). In 2 Cor. iii, 13-16 Paul designates it by the corresponding Greek word KaXv^i/xa, a covering. A cognate word, suth (riO, A. V. "clothes"), occurs in Gen. xlix, 11 as a general term for a man's raiment, leading to the inference that the masvek also was an ample outer robe which might be drawn over the face when required. The context, however, in Exod. xxxiv is conclusive as to the object for which the robe was as- sumed, and, whatever may have been its size or form, it must liave been used as a veil. See Moses.