again in fragments throughout the Bible, the Babylonish name Adon 

 frequently being found in that form (JIN), in its Hebrew rendering 

 Adonai P-lfc$), and occasionally in its Aramaean form of Tammuz. 

 It occurs alone, as in Psalm ex. i, " Yahouh said to Adonis, sit at my 

 right hand;" in Isaiah vii. 14, "Therefore our Adonis himself shall 

 give you a sign ;" and in conjunction with Yahouh, as in Isaiah vii. 7, 

 "Thus saith Yahouh, our Adonis," and numerous other places. It 

 also occurs with different terminations, to signify different forms and 

 positions of the sun-god as Adoniyah or Adonijah, Adonis is Yahouh ; 

 Adoni-zedek, the liberated Adonis ; Adoni-bezek, the rising Adonis; etc. 

 The old Semitic sun-god Shamsh remained, as of old, the Hebrew 

 ttffttt) (Shemosh), signifying the sun ; and his Greek alter ego, Hercules, 

 the sun-hero, was not forgotten either, for we find a very poor attempt 

 to reproduce him in the history of Samson. Moloch, Dagon, and other 

 Semitic deities are also introduced into the Jewish Scriptures. There 

 is one other deity frequently met with which must now be named, and 

 that is the Egyptian Amen--the Zeus Amen (few 'A/^y) of the Greeks, 

 and the Jupiter Ammon of the Romans. This god Ammon (]N or 

 pN) was worshipped by the Jews as the equal in power to, and the 

 very counterpart of, Yahouh, and was called by the very same names 

 by which he was known to the Egyptians viz., the hidden god, true 

 and faithful witness (which epithet gave origin to the Greek adverb, 

 'AprjVj truly)/ and saviour of the world, or regenerator of nature. In 

 Isaiah xlv. 15 we read, "Truly thou art the hidden god of Israel, the 

 saviour;" and, again, in chapter Ixv. 16, "He who ,blesses himself on 

 earth shall bless himself by his god Ammon (JEWnbN) ; and he who 

 sweareth in the earth shall swear by the god Ammon, because the 

 former troubles are delivered to oblivion, and because they are hidden 

 from mine eyes." This hidden or occult god, Ammon, or Amen, is 

 frequently addressed in the Psalms and other places, and is there iden- 

 tified with Yahouh and Adonis. In Psalm xxvii. 8, 9, we read, " Seek 

 ye my face. My heart said to thee, Thy face, O Yahouh, will I seek. 

 O hide not thy face from me ;" and Psalm x. i, "And why standest 

 thou so far off, Yahouh, and hidest thy face in the needful time of 

 trouble ? " Psalm Ixxxix. 46 says, " Yahouh, how long wilt thou hide 

 thyself?" Verses 49, 50, " O our Adonis, where are thy loving kind- 

 nesses of old, which thou swearest to David in thy truth ?" and verse 

 52, "Blessed be Yahouh for evermore (who is) Ammon, even Ammon." 

 In Isaiah i. 15 we also read, "When ye spread forth your hands I will 

 hide myself from you ; yea, when ye make many prayers I will not hear 

 you." We find the same god also in the New Testament Scriptures of 

 the later Christian sect of Eclectic Egyptian Jews. In the Apocalypse, 

 for instance, the word 'Aprjv is rendered " Amen " in the authorised 



