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Bog and Magog. by PROFESSOR S 3I7 soul for another, God is seeking expression, and sources and powers. The intercession of the soul the conflict is due in part to the inadequacy of the is a divine act belonging to that other unseen and instrument. The thing is so wonderful, so alien eternal order and conditioned by the limitations of to much in our human outlook, so transcendent, our being ; that is why from our side it has the that its coming into a world like this through being I bearing of conflict, rt is cOlljlid; what it looks like us means travail and strife. from God’s we cannot tell from this side like ,1 side, yet ; In one of her sonnets Mrs. Browning speaks of it is often like a wrestling with a reluctant God for the soul’s expression : the souls of men ; but the divine wrestler is playing for a fall, and loves to be worsted. What if all the This song of soul I struggle to outbear time it is His own love within us to ex- Through portals of the sense suhlime and whole, struggling release ? And utter all myself into the air : pression and But if I did it-as the thunder-roll ’Why pray? why not do something ?’ If we Breaks its own flesh would therc , cloud,-my perish only prayed in Christ, if we only offered all our Before that dread apocalypsc of soul. ) powers to Him, we should be doing something- There must always be some such barrier between I we should be doing what He does for ever; we the soul and its perfect expression within the limits should work in the fellowship of the Cross ; we of this world. The interceding soul must be should be not only good soldiers of Christ, but doomed to struggle because it is within two worlds, ourselves His battlefields, and the scenes of His. the one not yet known in all the fulness of its re- latest victories. Bog and Magog. BY PROFESSOR S. H. HOOKE, M.A., VICTORIA COLLEGE, TORONTO. _-B1’ a time when the Christian Church, already ’ briefly. The name Gog ’ has been connected with prepared by the recent remarkable revival of (i) Gltgu, the cuneiform form of Gyges king of interest in Apocalyptic studies, is being forced by II Lydia, 6b7-65~ l~,.C. (2) Gágu, ruler of the land the world drama of to-day to think of Armageddon of Sakhi, a district N. of Assyria, mentioned in the- and its issues, the following brief summary of the Annals of AsshurbanipaL The name Magog has information available concerning Gog and Magog, been explained as: (i) a contraction of lll~ct jo~;,. the mysterious protagonists of the final struggle, ’the land of Gog,’ or lYlat~ugat~a, ’the land of a in may be of interest. The essence of Christian Gagaia,’ people mentioned the Tell el-Amarna. Apocalyptic is hope. There is always God at the tablets ; lllcat being the Assyrian word for ‘land.’- It been as end. Coventry Patmore has expressed the familiar ,I (2) has read ~Ylrgdon, and connected with Har-Magedon Other thought finely : . (Cheyne). etymologies. from Persian and Indo-European sources have Under the everchanging clouds of doubt. ij been but need not be discussed here. When others cry, ) offered, The stars, if stars there were, fI What little evidence of an etymological nature- Are quenched and out ; < there is seems to point towards an original geograph- To to the hill, for aid, him, uplooking ~ ical and etymological assignment of Gog to the Appear at need displayed on the shores of the Euxine, such Gaps in the low hung gloom, peoples dwelling And, bright in air, as the Cimmerians (Gomer),the Tabali and Mushku Orion or the Bear. of the Assyrian inscriptions (Tubal and Mesech),. and others. Hence in the popular imagination I. ETYMOLOGY. Gog belongs to the generic class of the Northern For fuller discussion of the etymology of the peoples. But by the time of the N.T. writers the name Gog’ the reader is referred to the articles term has totally lost any vague geographical sense on ’ ‘ Gog ’ and Magog’ in H.D.b’. It will be which it may have had in Ezekiel’s time. Hence- sufficient here to sum up the available data very the reader must be referred for a fuller discussion. Downloaded from ext.sagepub.com at TEXAS A & M INTL UNIV on March 13, 2015 3I8 of the question to the articles mentioned above, 4. Rall)i?iical Literat1fre.- There are a number to Driver’s Co~umeuta~_v Oil Geuesis (102), and to of specific references to Gog and 3.Iagog in Rab- Redpath’s Conrzrre~rtczr_t~ Oil E~el,~r’el (381). binical literature. Only a few of the more import- ant can be cited. There is the well-l;nown passage II. OCCURRENCES OF THE NAME. in the Jerus. Targ. on Nu II2ï: ’On the last day i. In the O.T. the references are : Gn io~, where Gog and Magog and their army will march against Magog is mentioned alone among the descendants Jerusalem.’ S‘anlz. IT : ’Gog and Magog, the of Japheth ; Ezk 38-39, in a description of the future nations who will declare war against the ’~ final assault against Jerusalem and the restored Messiah ’; ’ many more years will be the war of ,remnant. Possibly we should include here the Gog and Magog, and the remainder will be the remarkable LXX version of Nu 24ï: ‘There shall days of the Messiah.’ This latter passage is .come forth a man from his seed, and shall bear represented as being from a Persian source. The I rule over many nations, and (his) kingdom shall be Messiah ben Joseph is to conquer Rome but to higher than Gog.’ It is possible that this reading fall before Gog. A long interval elapses between as the fall of Rome and the fall of R. may represent the true Hebrew text, fl;~~ offers / Gog (Pesil,,. T~’~. Gen. R. B.B. no intelligible sense. 12, 37 ; 22, ysa ; 73 ; I ~ ~b). <<Ipoc‘zlv~tic Z//~’~////’<’.&horbar;In the Jewish Apo- I Other passages are B. h. be?-acli- 7b, Edr jotlz ii. To, calyptic the conception is frequently found in a ; llleclzilta ya, Sol), Sia, Sifi-e 143a, SZ_fJ’‘a II2C, general form, but there is no occurrence of a I _9hodcr Zara i. f. 36. specific reference to the final enemy under the I 5. Arabic Litera/un.-In the Koran the Gog and has received a name of Gog and Nlagog. These names are only l~Iagog conception large amount found in Jub 82’ 98 in a topographical sense, and of mythical accretion. They are called Yajuj and in Sibyllines iii. 3T9, 512, where Gog and Magog Majuj, and are represented as having been shut up are identified as rivers of Ethiopia. The reference by Alexander the Great within a boundary wala. This wall will be broken down before may possibly be to the Nubians who returned from the day of Egypt with Antiochus Epiphanes when he dese- Judgment, and the hosts of Yajuj and Majuj will .crated the temple. The more important passages come forth to be ultimately destroyed by God. for the general conception of the final assault are 6. P‘atristic Literature.-In the Apostolic Fathers Sib iii. 663 ff., Eth. En 56 6212 901û, Ass. Mos S1&dquo;v, there is no specific mention of Gog and Magog, and Apoc. Bar 401, 2 is 5/j 1 33&dquo;&dquo;r, Ps. Sol 2’’S-~~, Jud i 61s. that cycle of Apocalyptic events, consisting in the 3. N.T. Z~-~~M~.&horbar;The only passage contain- final hostile assault and defeat, is hardly represented at all. who be taken ing a specific reference to Gog and Magog is Rev Iren-,P-us, may to represent 20ï-10. The author of the Apocalypse represents a the traditional point of view of the Eschatology of double assault. The first is led by the beast and the Church, deals fully with Antichrist and the the false propliet, i.e. the Roman Empire combined interpretation of his number (Adv. Hrer. v. 30), with the Antichrist, and takes place before the but passes over in silence the second assault after setting up of the millennial Messianic kingdom on the Millennial reign. Hippolyus also, in de Christ. earth. This attack is defeated by the Messiah in et Anticlz. 50, follows Irenzeus in his interpretation person at the head of the armies of heaven. The the mystic number, but passes over Gog and second attack takes place at the close of the earthly Magog in silence. Possibly the Church of the Messianic kingdom. Satan, who has been bound Apostolic Age had come to regard the two assaults in the Abyss during the kingdom, is loosed, and described by the author of the Apocalypse as one, -gathers Gog and Magog, the nations in the four namely, the pre-millennial assault led by the beast -corners of the earth, against the camp of the and the false prophet. saints,’ ’ the beloved City.’ This attack is annihi- III. PLACE OF THE GOG-MAGOG CONCEPTION lated by fire coming down from God out of heaven. IN THE GENERAL SCHEME OF APOCA- It is followed by the passing away of heaven and earth, and the final sessional judgment. LYPTIC. Other apocalyptic passages in&dquo;the N.T. referring I. Period Tlzemy.-Modern investigation has in general terms to the final assault are Mt 2415, made it very clear that the various Apocalyptic Mk 13 14 [Lk 2 I?°-’~~ ?~, ~ 2 Th 2:;-8.
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