Ezechiel — Chapter 38
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Verse 2
Against Gog, and the Land of Magog.] Gog and Magog, according to the most common opinion, were the King, and people of Scithia, in the North part of the world, a barbarous, sauage, and cruel nation, the offspring of Magog sonne of Iapheth: wherto the Prophet alluding describeth here, as S. Ierom in this place, S. Augustin li. 20. c. 11. de ciuit. and other Fathers expound it, al persecuters of the Church; most especially Antichrist, and his complices. Of whom likewise, by the same mystical names, S. Iohn prophecieth Apoc. 20. v. 7 that Satan shal be loosed out of his prison, and shal goe forth, and seduce the nations, that are vpon the foure corners of the earth: Gog, and Magog, and shal gather them into battel, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
Verse 16
Antichrist signified by Gog shal persecute the Church neere the end of the world.
Verse 21
In euerie part of the vniuersal Church God wil at last destroy Antichrists power, confounding him, and al his adherents.