o Vid. ver. $. let. c. p Vid. wer. 11. and chap. 34. ver. 25. q Thou wilt be informed how weak, yer how rich, how eaſy 'tis to make them a Prey, and thou'lt believe and try it.
i5 And thou ſhalt » come from thy place s out of the north-parts t, thou « and many x people with thee, all of them riding y on horſes, a great z company,and a mighty army.
r Vid. wer. 9. let. mn. s Out of thine own Land. # From Scyrhia, from the Euxine and Caſpian Seas, and Countries thereabouts. « The Leader, and Chiefrain. x Mighry and numerous, as ver. 6. and wer. g. let. q. y Ver. 4. lt. I. z Ver. g. {t.q.
16 And thou ſhale come up againſt my people of Ifrael, as a cloud to cover the land, it ihail be in the latter a days, and I will bring 5 thee againſt my land, that the heathen may know c me, when [I ſhall be ſanCtified 4 in thee, O Gog, before their e eyes. .
The firſt part of the Verſe, ſee wer. g, @« See wer.s. let. c. b See wer. 4. let. ?. c Gog gathers all from all Quarters to be with him to rake the Spoil; God brings them together to do that among them, which may make the Heathen ſee and own his Hand. They do it in proud Contempr of God and his People, but God doth it to glorify his own Name, and to vindicate his People. a Confetſed to be a great God over all, a gracious and faithful God to his People, and a juſt; tho dreadful Enemy and avenger againſt the wicked and proud Ty. rants. e In the ſight of all the Heathen that are with Goz in his Ex. pedition, and much more in the ſight of God's own wonderfully de- livered People.
17 Thus faith the Lord GOD," Art thou f he of whom I have ſpoken g in old time + + by my ſervants the pro- phets # of Ifrael, which propheſied in thoſe days many years, chat I would bring thee againſt them ?
F Either by way of Contempt from God upon him, and all his Preparations, or by way of Monition ; all theſe Enterpriſes I foreſaw, have ſpoken of them, and I will as well defear as I did foretel them. g 'Tisnot ſaid 'tis written, tho that be true alſo, but 'rwas more ſpoken of. h In the days of thoſe Years paſt, or of their Years in thetimes when thoſe Prophets lived. # Not by Prognoſticators, or Sourh-ſayers, but by true Prophets, my Servants, whom I ſent, Dan. 11. and Zeb. 14. Now, tho they had not foretold this when Exetel did, yet when the Queſtion ſhall be ask'd by the Church, *twill be ſo many 195
+ Heb. +5y the hand.
11 And thou ſhalt « ſay, I will * go up to the land of| <2" paſt, it may well refer to theſe two Prophers ; beiide 7/s. 26.
| unwalled villages 7, I will go to them that are at reſt z,
| that dwell {| ſafely «, all of them dwelling without walls 5, and having neither bars nor gates.
u Thou wilt reſolve in thy ſelf, and declare it to thy Council. & In-
vade wichall thy Puiſſance. y Weak, and without any conſiderable
efences; a ſcattered People that dwell in Villages, can make little if any Reſiſtance. z Who would willingly be quier. # SuſpeCting as little evil from-orhers, asthey incend little againſt others, and truſting in the Prote&ion of their God, who hath promiſed they ſhall dwell
| Gfely, 4 Thar may reſiſt and be too ſtrong for my Forces and En-
gines; tho they have Walls, Bars and Gates, yet Gog accounts as none zgainſt his mighry Armies.
12 + To take a ſpoil c, and to take a prey 4, to turn |
thine hand e upon the deſolate places f that are now inha-
, dired gy and upon the people :hat are gathered out of the
nations, which have gotten + cattel and goods, that dwell
þ«. 1n the -þ midſt of the land, I Vol. I.
20,” 21, with chap. 27. wer. 1. Jer. 3o. 23, 24. Jorl 3. 1, 15, 16. and Afic, 5. 5, 6. are Prophets cited as thoſe who{pake of this mighty Enemy, and his coming, and from which an underſtanding Reader may ſoon colle&, that this Foe was intended as well as others in the places.
18 And it ſhall come to paſs at the ſame time, when Gog ſhall come againſt the land of Iſrael, faith the Lord GOD, that my fury ſhall come & up in my face
k Gog cometh up in Fury againſt J/-ae!, and God's Fury, 7. e. hot, yet juft Diſpleaſure, comes up in his Face againſt boththe Attempr and the Attempters, againſt Gog, and all his Power, whothink tofiad a weak People, but they ſhall meet wich an angry God.
19 For in my jealouſie /, and in the fire of my wrath 2 have I ſpoken : ſurely » in that day there ſhall be a great ſhaking o in p the land of Iſrael.
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