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Dr. Moore s Lost Tribes. 



halo or glory, and superscribed with the word 'HAIOS (Helios), 

 which every school boy knows is Greek for the Sun, and is one of 

 the ordinary titles and characters under which Phcebus Apollo 

 makes his appearance in Grecian mythology. 



It will hardly be believed that Dr. Moore offers the following ex- 

 planation of the legends on these coins : — " The coins of this king 

 of kings, perhaps Leo Kanerkes, bear two remarkable words, in the 

 one case being Nanajah ; and in the other Elias. These words 

 stand at the back of figures of Godama ; that the figures are those 

 of Godama we learn from the monogram containing his name, as 

 shown in a former chapter. The words referred to are in Greek let- 

 ters, but as Greek they have no meaning ; as Hebrew, however, 

 they are full of significance when applied to Godama : for Nanajah 

 signifies the offspring of God ; and Elias is the Greek rendering for 

 the Hebrew word Elijah, as we find in the New Testament, and in 

 the version of the Seventy, well-known to the inquiring Greeks, and 

 probably to those numerous Greek colonists over whom Godama, at 

 least through Kanerkes and Kadphises, reigned." 



The most remarkable point perhaps in this tissue of absurdities 

 is the audacious statement that the word Helios, — tortured by Dr. 

 Moore, by changing o into a, and omitting the aspirate, into Elias, 

 — has " no meaning in Greek,'' when it is in fact the ordinary word 

 for the sun. Then it is worthy of notice that he converts the 

 Greek Nanaia into Nanajah, — a form which is not reconcileable 

 with any modern or reasonable system for rendering Oriental words 

 into English letters, but which, from its harmony with the barba- 

 rous etymology adopted in James the 2nd's reign by the com- 

 pilers of the authorised Version of the Bible, is calculated to give 

 his " transliterations" an air of Scriptural Hebraism, and thus to 

 make a favourable impression on the unlearned public. 



As these coins by no means make their first public appearance in 

 Dr. Moore's book, he seems to think it necessary to make some al- 

 lusion to the previous and accepted descriptions given of them by 

 competent scholars, but he does so with flagrant unfairness and con- 

 cealment of the truth. Thus he says at p. 295 : — " In remarking 



