Goguet, Antoine-yves, a French jurisconsult, was born at Paris Jan. 18, 171G, and became counsel- lor to the parliament of Paris. He applied himself closely to literature, and especially to historical stud- ies. His name is chiefly preserved hy his great work Origine des Lois, dcs Arts, et des Sciences, chez les An- ciens Peiqdes (3 vols. 4to, Paris, 1758, in which he was assisted by his friend Fugere). It treats the his., tory of civilization among the Assyrians, Bab^-loni- ans, Egyptians, Phoenicians, and the early Greeks, in vol. i ; and in vol. ii, the period from the death of Ja- cob to the establishment of monarchy among the He- brews, with the usages, etc. of the Lydians and Vhryg- ians, with the states of Greece and the people of Crete. The third volume carries the subject down to the time of C3'rus, and upon the same plan as the oth- er two. Goguet adds also dissertations on ancient coins ; on the astronomical periods of the Chaldjsans ; on the antiquities of the Babj-lonians, Egyptians, and Chinese ; on Sanchoniatho ; and on the authenticity and antiquity of the book of Job. Goguet died in 1758. His work has passed through several editions in France, of which the last is that of Paris, 1809, 3 vols. 8vo. There is an English translation, Origin of Laws, etc. (Lond. 1775, 3 vols. 8vo). — English Cyclopm- dia ; Hoefer, Noxw. Biog. Gcnerale, xxi, 75.
Goim is thought to be the proper name of a peo- ple in northern Palestine (C^iS, Goyim', Josh, xii, 23; Sept. rMtin^\\\g. gentes, A.V. "nations"), whose king lived at Gilgal (q. v.). A similar designation is em- ployed also in Gen. xiv, 1 respecting Tidal (q. v.), "king of nations" (Sept. t'.ri'?;, Vulg. gentes). It is, however, the universal term for Gentiles (q. v.).
Going, Jonathan, D.D., an influential Baptist minister, was born in 1786, and graduated at Brown University in 1809. He was licensed to preach -while a memlier of college, and pursued the study of theol- ogy under the direction of Dr. Messer, then president of the college. Dr. Messer's orthodoxy was not above suspicion, and Mr. Going became unsettled in his doC" trinal views for a time, but afterwards and finally be- came solidly grounded in "the doctrines of the Refor- mation." He was ordained in lisll, and settled at Cavendish, Vt. At this time, out of forty-five Bap- tist ministers in that state, he was the only one who had been liberallj' educated, and had an extensive in- fluence. He was called in 1815 to Worcester, Mass. Here his labors were the means of Inulding up a large and efficient church. He took an active interest in public education, and aided in founding the Newton Theological Institution. A journey, in 1831, into what was then "the West," awakened his interest in home missionary' enterprises. The American Baptist Home
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Missionary Society was formed the following year, and Dr. Going was appointed corresponding secretar3^ After five years' successful service, lie accepted a call to the presidency of Granville College, Ohio, now Den- ison University. His administration of the college did much to give it a substantial foundation and to in- sure its healthful growth. He died in 1844. He was strong, active, indefatigable, and his whole energy was kindled by a passion for usefulness. (L. E. S.)
Go'lan (Heb. Golun , '^13, exile accord, to Gesen., but circle accord, to Fiirst ; Sept. TavXixiv ; once Ga- lon , 'jli^i*, "keri" at Josh, xxi, 27, Sept. YitiXav'), a city of Bashan (Deut. iv, 23) allotted out of the half tribe of Manasseh east to the Gershonite Levites (Josh. xxi, 27 ; 1 Chron. vi, 71), and one of the three cities of refuge east of the Jordan (xx, 8). We find no fur- tlier notice of it in Scripture ; and though Eusebiiis and Jerome say it was still an important place in their time (^Onoviast. s. v. YavXiop, Gaulon ; Keland, Palo'st. p. 815), its verj'^ site is now unknown. Tlic word is recognised in the present Jaiddn, mentioned by Burck- hardt (^Sipia, p. 286) as giving name to a district lying east of the lake of Tiberias, and composed of the an- cient Gaulonitis, with part of Bashan and Argob (see also Robinson's /iMearc/if.f, iii, 308,312; Append, p. 149, 162). It is indeed clear that the Gaulonitis of the later Jewish history must have included part of the more ancient Bashan, if Golan gave name to the prov- ince, seeing that Golan was certainly in Bashan. The city itself may have been situated on tell el-Feras, which, although destitute of ruins, is the most promi- nent part of the Jebel Heish that principally consti- tutes the modern district. Some have supposed that the village of Nmva, on the eastern border of Jaulan, around which are extensive ruins (see Porter, Ilandb. for Syr. and Puled.), is identical with the ancient Go- Ian ; l>ut for tliis there is not a shadow of evidence ; and Xawa, besides, is much too far to the eastward.
Some difficulty has been suggested as arising from the fact that the Judas whom Josephus {Ant. xviii, 1, 1) calls a Gaulonite is called by Luke (Acts v, 37) a Galiltean. This is the more remarkable, as Josephus elsewhere (H7(;-, ii, 20, 4) carefully distinguishes Gal- ilee and Gaulonitis. Yet he himself elsewhere calls this very Judas a Galila.\an {Ant. xviii, 1, G ; xx, 5, 2 ; War, ii, 9, 1). It is, from tliis, probable that Judas had a double cognomen, perhaps because he had been born in Gaulonitis, but had been brought up or dwelt in Galileo ; as Apollonius, although an Egjptian, 3'et was, from his place of residence, called Rhodius (see Kui- nol, in Act. v, 37). Sec Judas (the Gahl.ii:an).