230 I have to thank the Rev. Professor R. H. Kennett for this important suggestion as to the true nature of the _ḳedeshim_. The passages of the Bible in which mention is made of these men are Deuteronomy xxiii. 17 (in Hebrew 18); 1 Kings xiv. 24, xv. 12, xxii. 46 (in Hebrew 47); 2 Kings xxiii. 7; Job xxxvi. 14 (where _ḳedeshim_ is translated “the unclean” in the English version). The usual rendering of _ḳedeshim_ in the English Bible is not justified by any of these passages; but it may perhaps derive support from a reference which Eusebius makes to the profligate rites observed at Aphaca (_Vita Constantini_, iii. 55; Migne’s _Patrologia Graeca_, xx. 1120); Γύνιδες γοῦν τινες ἄνδρες οὐκ ἄνδρες, τὸ σέμνον τῆς φύσεως ἀπαρνησάμενοι, θηλείᾳ νόσῳ τὴν δαίμονα ἱλεοῦντο. But probably Eusebius is here speaking of the men who castrated themselves in honour of the goddess, and thereafter wore female attire. See Lucian, _De dea Syria_, 51; and below, pp. 269 _sq._ 231 Strabo, xi. 4. 7, p. 503. 232 Drexler, in W. H. Roscher’s _Lexikon der griech. und röm. Mythologie_, _s.v._ “Men,” ii. 2687 _sqq._ 233 It is true that Strabo (_l.c._) speaks of the Albanian deity as a goddess, but this may be only an accommodation to the usage of the Greek language, in which the moon is feminine. 234 Florus, _Epitoma_, ii. 7; Diodorus Siculus, Frag. xxxiv. 2 (vol. v. pp. 87 _sq._, ed. L. Dindorf, in the Teubner series). M56 Resemblance of the Hebrew prophets to the sacred men of Western Africa. 235 Above, pp. 52 _sq._ 236 1 Kings xix. 16; Isaiah lx. 1.