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The symbolism of power conveyed by horns and horn-related Hebrew (and other Semitic) words as portrayed on the aforementioned coins (or some others, which might have used the same imagery but which are no longer extant) may well have led St. Jerome to his translation.
To be sure, as it was fiction, Rosten exaggerated a bit, but the real-life models were then extant, and I can vouch for at least one from my own experience.
Just think how many words must have been coined by writers whose works are the only ones extant from early periods of the language: people who misuse citation dictionaries must think that Richard Rolle of Hampole, Holinshed, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and a handful of other geniuses sat down one day and invented the English language, making up the words as they went along.
Experimental studies have shown that members of the archetypal RecA family of recombinases are central to this reaction in all extant forms of life [ 1 2 ] .
The Christian Church, nevertheless, chose to latch on to the concept of the Virgin Birth long before the sixteenth century ( cf . Tertullian, who lived c. 160-240 A.D.) in any case, and we do not know whether the use of Isaiah 7:14 was to justify an already extant belief with a text, or whether it was to take an already accepted text and graft its meaning, as was then understood, upon the events of the Annunciation to Mary.