Note 106 — LETTER XXXIII.
Joanna B. Horner translation
This view is found already in the above-mentioned (note, p. 313) Itinerarium of Antoninus, who places the convent between Sinai and Horeb. The monks’ tradition of the present day, that the rock projecting into the plain of Râha was Horeb, is well known. The arbitrary character of such assumptions is evident; nevertheless, the latter opinion is maintained by Gesenius (Thesaur, p. 517, Wiener, and others).