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GOG (possibly connected with the Gentilic Gagaya, " of the See also: Hebrew name found in Ezek. xxxviii.-xxxix. and in Rev. xx., and denoting an antitheocratic power that is to manifest itself in the See also: world immediately before 'the final See also: dispensation
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In the later passage, Gog and Magog are spoken of as co-See also: ordinate; in the earlier, Gog is given as the name of the See also: person or See also: people and Magog as that of the See also: land of origin
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Magog is perhaps a contracted See also: form of See also: Mat-gog, mat being the See also: common See also: Assyrian word for "land." The passages are, however, intimately related
GOGOL
and both depend upon Gen. x
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2, though here Magog alone is mentioned
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He is the second "son" of Japhet, and the See also: order of the names here and in Ezekiel xxxviii
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2, indicates a locality between See also: Cappadocia and See also: Media, i.e. in Armenia
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According to See also: Josephus, who is followed by See also: Jerome, the Scythians were primarily intended by this designation; and this plausible opinion has been generally followed
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The name EKbOai, it is to be observed, however, is often but a vague word for any or all of the numerous and but partially known tribes of the See also: north; and any attempt to assign a more definite locality to Magog can only be very hesitatingly made
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According to some, the Maiotes about the Palus Maeotis are meant; according to others, the See also: Massagetae; according to See also: Kiepert, the inhabitants of the See also: northern and eastern parts of Armenia
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The imagery employed in Ezekiel's prophetic description was no doubt suggested by the Scythian invasion which about the See also: time of Josiah, 63o B.C., had devastated See also: Asia (Herodotps i
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104-106; Jer. iv
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3-vi
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30) . Following on this description, Gog figures largely in Jewish and See also: Mahommedan as well as in Christian See also: eschatology
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In the See also: district of See also: Astrakhan a See also: legend is still to be met with, to the effect that Gog and Magog were two See also: great races, which See also: Alexander the Great subdued and banished to the inmost recesses of the
See also: Caucasus, where they are meanwhile kept in by the terror of twelve trumpets blown by the winds, but whence they are destined ultimately to make their escape and destroy the world
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The legends that attach themselves to the gigantic See also: effigies (dating from 1708 and replacing those destroyed in the Great Fire) of Gog and Magog in See also: Guildhall, See also: London, are connected only remotely, if at all, with the biblical notices
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According to the Recuyell See also: des histoires de Troye, Gog and Magog were the survivors of a See also: race of giants descended from the See also: thirty-three wicked daughters of See also: Diocletian; after their brethren had been slain by Brute and his companions, Gog and Magog were brought to London (Troy-novant) and compelled to officiate as porters at the See also: gate of the royal palace
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It is known that effigies similar to the See also: present existed in London as early as the time of See also: Henry V.; but when this legend began to attach to them is uncertain
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They may be compared with the giant images formerly kept at
See also: Antwerp (Antigomes) and See also: Douai (Gayant)
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According to Geoffrey of See also: Monmouth (See also: Chronicles, i
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16), Goemot or Goemagot (either corrupted from or corrupted into " Gog and Magog ") was a giant who, along with his See also: brother Corineus, tyrannized in the western See also: horn of See also: England until slain by See also: foreign invaders
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