Ezekiel — Chapter 38
The prophecy against Gog, prince of Meshech and Tubal, who comes from the north against restored Israel with a vast coalition of nations. Lapide, following Jerome, Theodoret, and Gregory, identifies Gog's final assault as the persecution of Antichrist against the Church at the end of time — the same Gog who appears in Apocalypse 20:8.
Verse 2
Gog, of the land of Magog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: Lapide surveys the various identifications — Scythians (Jerome), Goths (Jerome also), Turks (common in Lapide's day) — and finally adopts the eschatological interpretation: Gog represents the ultimate coalition of all forces hostile to God and His Church.
Verse 16
'In novissimis diebus' — in the last days: Lapide insists this temporal marker forces an eschatological reading. He discusses whether 'last days' refers to the Roman era (as some patristics suggest) or to the final years before the Second Coming, concluding the latter is the primary referent.
Verse 18
My hot anger shall be roused: Lapide's treatment of divine anger as communicating urgency of moral warning, not literal passion. He follows Thomas Aquinas (Summa I, q. 3, a. 2) on divine impassibility while maintaining that Scripture rightly uses emotional language to convey the seriousness of sin and the certainty of judgment.