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Gog and Magog

noun
1.
Biblical names of the enemies of God's people who wage war against God at the end of the world.






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"Gog and Magog" Quotes from Famous Books



... in stature and, in the latter part of his life, somewhat corpulent. He had a massive head, a low forehead, and strong and rather coarse features. He reminded you of the statues of Gog and Magog in the Guildhall in London. His hair came down over his forehead, and when he had been away from home for a week or two, so that his head got no combing but his own, it was in a sadly tangled mass. His eye was dull, except when it ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar

... the thousand years are finished, Satan will be loosed out of his prison, (8)and will go out to mislead the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. (9)And they went up upon the breadth of the earth, and encompassed the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; and fire came down from God[20:9] out of heaven, and devoured them. ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various

... this hatred into a national sentiment in England, it was requisite to connect him by some relation with English "interests." Hence the idea of describing him as a vulture, (or as Sinbad's roc,) constantly hovering over our sheep-folds in India. Gog and Magog are not more shadowy and remote as objects for Indian armies, artillery, and rockets, than that great prince who looks out upon Europe and Asia through the loopholes of polar mists. Anti-Gog will probably synchronize with the two Gogs. And Lord Auckland would have earned the title ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various



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