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Beda,
with St. Augustine, seems to have confused ………, "a roof," With .... The
writer of the Article "Magog," in Smith's Bible Dictionary, while acknowledging
the etymology to be uncertain, states that Knobel and Von Bohlen propose
as a derivation, the Sanscrit mah or maha, "great," and
a Persian word signifying "mountain ;" but that Hitzig, on the other hand,
connects the first syllable with the Coptic, ma, "place," or the
Sanscrit, maha, " land," and the second with a Persian word, koka,
"the moon." |
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So
St. Gregory, in Morals of the Book of Job, bk. xxiv. ch. 16, says, "And
the dead were judged out of those things which are written in the Books;
because in the conduct of the righteous which is set forth, they read as
in an open book the good which they refused to do themselves, and are condemned
on comparison with those who did it." Oxf. Tr., vol. iii. p. 61. |