A P.2o. Jeyelattonofthe Apocalypfe. 827 fupply, his room inhisabfcnce.Gog&Magog then are the nations that arc fübjeci to the Turk*Empire, or elfe fuck as miniftcr forces to the Turk for the.accoanplifhing of his wicked defignes; But yet fo, that Cog is put for the chief and proper nations that belong to the Turk; dominion, as we learned out of Ezechiel, who bendeth the force of his prophecie againff Gog efpeciallyy, Chap.. 38. and 39. But Magog s put for the Nations that belong,perhaps,to the 4urifdieti- on offume other, yet fo, as they are alwayes Fell to aid the Tork: For Ezechiel inveigheth more lightly gainft him,as who is a confederate ra- ther then a principali author of the war. As touching Gog, there is one of the fonnes of Rambo.: recorded of this name, i Chron.5. 4. But he hashnothingelfe whereinhe agreeth with this Gog here fpoken of; as it is cleare by there places of Ezechiel, and of the Revelarion, in which places alone, befides that which wee named right now, there is mention found ofgag. The moll, learned Interprets rs, Tremelius and Iunius, fuppofe, .that this name came of Gyges, that killed Candaules, King ofLjdi,r,and took poffethonof his Kingdom in his rootr,whereup on the lefl'er Af'a was Gog,even as afterwards whenCrcefùs inlarged the borders of his Kingdome into Syria, acertain town neer Libanus, was called Gygarta, infted of Gog-karts, that is, the City of Gog. Certain- ly at the time when Ezechielprophefied, either Halyattes, or Crxfus, bothof whichwere of the Pofterityof Gyges, raigned in the letter Aia. And it is no ftrange matter, that the countries are called by the names of the chief Goverriours of them; efpeciaily in the Scriptures,. which teach us, that eachof the Nations tooke theirnames hence at the begin- ning. And yet this hath place, perhaps, ra.her in the' fiat Princes, then in thòfe that fttcceed them, and yet there allo have irnpofed names to Countries. But it was enough for the Prophet to note out the Nation, by the name oldie firft off-fpring,whence it came,which raigned there at that time,howfoever,perhaps,that Countreywas notcalled focommonly. Thefe things do make this opinion probable ; But notwithftanding, fee- ing Ezechiel, withwhole Prophecie this whole place, thatwas wholly taken from thence, doth agree altogether, maketh this gag the chief Princeand Commander of Melhecb,andTaabal, Chap.3.8. 3. That is,.of the Capadocians,and the Iberians inAña,as IoRephms faith in the fit{t Book ofAntigait,Chap.7. and therewas noneof Gyges poiterity,no not Cree- ps', who raigned Taft and fin-theft off them all, that was ever Prince of there Nation,, as whole dominion was bounded within the Precincts of the River Hælys, as Herodotus writeth, in Clio; there is therefore, perhaps, Tome other reafonof this name. And it feemeth tobe this, that Nnnnn Gog
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