Ezekiel

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The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, See also: Ezekiel 39:1 Ezekiel 27:13 Ezekiel 38:3and say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. See also: Ezekiel 13:8 Ezekiel 35:3 Ezekiel 39:1-10I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords; See also: Daniel 11:40 Ezekiel 29:4 Ezekiel 38:15Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; See also: Ezekiel 27:10 Genesis 10:6 Ezekiel 30:5Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes—even many peoples with you. See also: Ezekiel 27:14 Genesis 10:2-3 1 Chronicles 1:5-6“‘“Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them. See also: 2 Chronicles 25:8 Joel 3:9-12 Zechariah 14:2-3After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples and they will dwell securely, all of them. See also: Isaiah 24:22 Ezekiel 38:16 Ezekiel 38:11-12You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.” See also: Isaiah 28:2 Jeremiah 4:13 Joel 2:2“‘The Lord GOD says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan. See also: Psalms 36:4 Micah 2:1 Mark 7:21You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, See also: Zechariah 2:4-5 Judges 18:7 Proverbs 3:29-30to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.’ See also: Isaiah 10:6 Ezekiel 38:8 Ezekiel 29:19Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all its young lions, will ask you, ‘Have you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’”’ See also: Ezekiel 27:15 Ezekiel 32:2 Ezekiel 27:22-23“Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, ‘The Lord GOD says: “In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, will you not know it? See also: Zechariah 2:5 Ezekiel 38:8 Jeremiah 23:6You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. See also: Ezekiel 39:2 Ezekiel 38:6 Revelation 20:8You will come up against my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.” See also: Ezekiel 39:21 Ezekiel 38:23 Hosea 3:5“‘The Lord GOD says: “Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them? See also: Daniel 11:40-45 Joel 3:9-14 Isaiah 63:1-6It will happen in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “that my wrath will come up into my nostrils. See also: Ezekiel 36:5-6 Nahum 1:2 Psalms 89:46For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken. Surely in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel, See also: Haggai 2:6-7 Haggai 2:21-22 Hebrews 12:26so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth will shake at my presence. Then the mountains will be thrown down, the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground. See also: Hosea 4:3 Nahum 1:4-6 Zechariah 14:4-5I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,” says the Lord GOD. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother. See also: Haggai 2:22 Judges 7:22 Ezekiel 14:17I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, torrential rains with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur. See also: Psalms 11:6 Isaiah 66:16 Revelation 16:21I will magnify myself and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”’ See also: Psalms 9:16 Ezekiel 38:16 Ezekiel 37:28

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)10 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Ezekiel 38:2

Ver. 2. Gog. This name, which signifies hidden, or covered, is taken in this place either for the persecutors of the Church of God in general, or some arch persecutor in particular; such as Antichrist shall be in the latter days. See Apoc. xx. 8. And what is said of the punishment of God, is verified by the unhappy end of persecutors. --- Magog. Scythia or Tartary, whence the Turks and other enemies of the Church of Christ originally sprung. Ch. --- These are supposed to be the princes of some northern and barbarous country, (W.) peopled by the son of Japhet. S. Jer.

--- S. Aug. (de Civ. Dei. xx. 11.) observes, that as the Church is spread everywhere, so also are persecutors. But Christ will overcome them all. W. ---

This prophecy is very difficult. It seems literally to refer to Cambyses, who invaded Judea about seventy years after the temple had been destroyed, and perished by the hand of God, at Ecbatana, upon Mount Carmel. It is very usual with the prophets to give fictitious names; as the king of Tyre is called a cherub, and Jerusalem Ooliba. Cambyses ruled over Scythia, in Iberia; styled Gogarene, by Strabo. xi. C. --- The proper Scythia withstood all the attempts of his successors, and defeated Darius. H.

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Ezekiel 38:4

Ver. 4. Jaws. Thus Cambyses treated the son of Psammenites. God has the most absolute dominion over all monarchs. v. 7.

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Ezekiel 38:8

Ver. 8. Visited, or rather "shall visit" Judea. Chal. Grot. --- Cambyses invaded Egypt twelve years after the Jews had returned, and came upon them two years later, designing to plunder them, at the instigation of their malevolent neighbours. He had sustained great losses in Egypt, and was arrived at Carmel when news was brought that the false Smerdis had declared himself king. See Herod. iii. 61.

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Ezekiel 38:12

This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.

Ver. 12. Midst. Lit. "navel." Heb. "Thabor," intimating a mountain rising in a plain. Judg. ix. 7.

C. --- Alluding to this intended blunder of the Jews lately returned, he speaks of Antichrist and of all heretics, who seek to pervert or suppress Catholics rescued from the power of the devil, by the sacraments of Christ. W.

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Ezekiel 38:13

Ver. 13. Tharsis. Sept. "Carthage, and all their villages." The merchants or naval forces of Cambyses spurred him forward, (see Ps. lxxvii. 6.) as well as the Arabs, Cuthites, &c. 1 Esd. iv.

8. C.

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Ezekiel 38:16

Ver. 16. Latter. Cambyses had punished Egypt, his turn came, and all his designs were baffled.

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Ezekiel 38:17

Ver. 17. Prophets. See Is. xiv. & xvi. 21. and xxvi. 1. Jer. xxx. 3. and 23. Joel ii.

30. iii. 1. &c.

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Ezekiel 38:19

Ver. 19. Israel. The Jews shall be full of dismay, (v. 20.) as the tyrant will vent some threats; (C.) or this commotion was in his own army. H.

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Ezekiel 38:21

Ver. 21. Sword. The Jews were not in a condition to make resistance. C. ---

Cambyses had his brother Smerdis slain. But another was set on the throne; whereupon, mounting his horse in a fury, he wounded himself with his sword in the thigh, which mortifying, caused his death after twenty days. Herod. iii.

21. &c. --- The historian does not mention what became of his army; but it seems to have perished by discord, as was very common among such a collection of nations.

See Jud. vii. 22. Judith xv. 1. and 1 K. xiv. 20. and 4 K. ii. 21. C. --- They were now without a head. H. --- In the whole universe, God will at last destroy Antichrist and all his adherents. W.

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Ezekiel 38:22

Ver. 22. Pestilence. His wound might be thus described. --- Blood. Thus was he punished for shedding that of innocent people. C.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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