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former subject. Thus altogether to dypiov, that beast , ch. xiii. 15, does not refer to ver. 11, but to ver. 1. Thus 2 Sam. xxiii. 19, 23, rpe?g refers not to the nearest, but to the more distant, ternary, ver. 8, etc. — yjkia. err), thousand years ) The threefold expression of the former mil- lennium (to which the threefold mention of the second millennium harmoniously answers) plainly makes a threefold opposition to the Non-clironus (which occupies the time between 1111 ^ and 999| or 1000 years), to the short space [xvii. 10] (888f years), and to the time 1, 2,j (777 9- years) ; for these three periods, which the dragon rendered particularly disastrous, are immediately followed by a thousand joyful years, while the dragon is bound, and these years are three times expressed [in ver. 2, 3, and 7]. — XvQijoerat ex rye <pv\axrig) An abbre- viated expression : that is, shall be loosed from his chain, and sent forth from his prison.
8. Tov Tuy xa i M ayuy) Magog, the son of Japhet, was the father of the northern nations towards the east. The prince of those nations is called Gog in Ezekiel ch. xxxviii. 2, and in this passage. A prince and a people most hostile, perhaps less good than others, though them- selves less wicked then than after the new <7r\avr\. The article roid of itself shows the intimate connection between the prince and the people, as does the Paronomasia, Gog and Magog . Both words sig- nify Lofty , Elevated, as Hiller teaches in his Onomasticon. There- fore Magog is used as a proper name : but Gog, the chief syllable, being left to it by Aphseresis, seems by Antonomasia to hold the place of a proper name, until that fierce leader of so many nations under Satan appears at length in his own name. Jerome on Ezek. xxxviii. would not have refused to take Eos as a proper name, if the name of such a nation (the Russians) had been known to him. Comp. Hist. Univ. vol. i. p. 257. — cvmyayeTv, to gather together) It is not said to deceive and gather together , but, to deceive for the purpose of gathering together. The gathering together is the end of the deceiving. — abrovg, them) In other places the Apocalypse regards the leader in prefer- ence to the forces, ch. xii. 7 ; but respecting the Gog prince it recounts nothing apart from Magog, which constitutes his forces, partly because enough had been said respecting him by Ezekiel, and partly because Gog makes an unsuccessful attempt, and in his over- throw is mingled with the crowd itself, as the kings are, ch. xix. 21, note.
1 Beng. and Lachm. rightly omit the second rov before M ocyuy, with A. The one article to both Gog and Magog marks their connection. Tisch., with B and Rec. Text, reads tov Motyuy — E.
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