1. Son of Sheniaiah, and father of Shimei, and one of the descendants (apparently great-great-grandson) of Eeuben (1 Chron. v, 4). B.C. post 1856. ]\Iost copies of the Sept., -however, read, very different names here.
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2. In Ezekiel Gog is (1.) the name of a mixed race dwelling in the extreme north, comprehended by the Greeks under the name of the ScijViians; tlionce trans- ferred (2.) to the centre and representative of their race, i. e. their king (chap. xxxviii,3!)). Gog comes forth from the distant north (xxxviii, 15; xxxix, 2), the prince of Kosh, Meshech, and Tubal (apparent]}' also of Siras), with his army of cavalry (xxxviii, 15), marching against the people of Israel, where he is mi- raculously encountered (xxxviii, 17-23) and annihila- ted (xxxix, 1-8). In the later tradition which sprang from Ezekiel's description, Gog along with Magog rep- resents the mixed population of the north, the Scythi- ans, Caucasians, etc. (3.) Gog is the name of the country of the people Gog, i. e. of the Scythians ; but this only in the somewhat modified language of the Apocalyptic seer (Kev. xx, 8, Pi'Jy, together with I\Ia- ywy), as it has become a geographical name in Arabic likewise; and this corresponds with the assertions of other Oriental authors, in whose traditions this people occupy an important place, as the name of a country (see D'Herbelot, Bibl. Or. p. 528). — Furst, s. v.
Interpreters have given ver}' different explanations of the terms Gog and Magog ; but they have generally understood them as symbolical expressions for the heathen nations of Asia, or more particularlj' for the Scythians, a vague knowledge of whom seems to have reached the Jews in Palestine about that period. Thus Josephus (.1 nt. i, 6, 3) has dropped the Hebrew word Mago(j^ and rendered it by YkvQcil ; and so does .Je- rome, while Suidas renders it bj' Ylipaai — a difference that matters but little in tlie main question, since ^kv- Oai, in the ancient authors, is but a collective name for the northern but partially-known tribes (Cellarius, Not'tt. ii, 753 sq.) ; and, indeed, as such a collective name, Magog seems also to indicate in the Hebrew the tribas about the Caucasian mountains (comp. .Jerome on Ezek. ibid.). Bochart (Phal. iii, 13) supports the opinion of Josephus, though by but very precarious etj'mologies. According to Reinegge (^Descrip. of the Caucasus, il, 79), some of the Caucasian people call their mountains Gog, and the highest northern points Magog. The Arabians are of opinion that the descend- ants (jf Gog and Magog inhabit the northern parts of Asia, beyond the Tartars and Sclavonians, and they put Yajtij and Majiij always in conjunction, therebj- indicating the extreme points of north and north-east of Asia (Bayer, in Comment. Acad.Petrop. i). Nor are there wanting interpreters who understand by the Gog of Revelations tlie anti-Christ, and by the Gog of Eze- kiel the Goths, who invaded the Roman empire in the 5th century of the Christian rera. (See Danderstad, Gog et Magog, Lips. 16G3 ; Zeitschr.f. tcissensch. Theol. 1862, p. 111.) In the Apocalypse these names appear to symbolize some future barbarian or infidel enemj' that is to arise against Christianit}' (Stuart's Comment. ad loc). — Kitto, s. v. See Magog.
Gogerly, Daniel John, a Weslej^an Methodist missionary and scholar, was born in London in August, 1792, and at fourteen united with the "WeslcA'an Meth- odist Society. He showed signs of remarkable talent, and at an early age became a local preacher. In 1818 he was sent to Ceylon to take charge of the Wesleyan mission press at Colombo. In 1822 he entered the regular missionary service, and was one of the first missionaries to preach extempore in Cingalese. He devoted himself earnestly to the study of the languages of the country-, especially the Pali, which is, to the Buddhist, what Sanscrit is to the Brahmin. He was the first European who gave any critical or scientific study to this dialect. In 1834 he was stationed at Madura, where he had special opportunities to study Pali under learned native priests. He arranged atiout 15,000 words for a dictionary', and succeeded in hav- ing copies made of all the sacred bool^s, with their glosses. This copy is now in the possession of the Wesleyan mission. In 1838 Mr. Gogerly became chair-
man of the mission, and afterwards general superin- tendent. The government apjjointed liini one of the Central School Commission of Ceylon. In 1822 he had become one of the translators for the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the Cingalese version ie largely due to his labors. Every word of all the edi- tions of the Bible printed bj' the society passed under his eye as editor and corrector. Among his most im- portant literary labors -were contributions to the Jour- nal oftlw Royal Asiatic Society, and to other periodi- cals, in illustration of the Pali literature of Buddhism. He was vice-president of the Ceylon branch of the Roj-al Asiatic Societj'. As a polemic work against Buddhism, he published Christiani Pragmjapti ; the Ev- idences and Doctrines of the Christian Religion : in Cin- galese (Colombo, Wesleyan Mission Press, 1862). A native gentleman offered fifty dollars for a Buddhist refutation of this work, but it never has appeared. Mr. Gogerly died September 0, 18G2. Both in England and France, he was recognised as the master of Pali literature. His writings on the subject are to be col- lected, it is said, and published in Paris. — London Quar- terly Revieio, April, 1863, art. v.