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Some Reasons for Relieving that Rus
MIA Will Take ConstanfinOpie ana Al
forwards Conquer Most of Europe and
Asia.
A tradition has existed among the citi.
zens OF Constantinople for many centuries
before the Ottoman took the city-as early
as the year A. D. 950--that it would be con-
uuered by the barbarianS OF the North.
Gibbon, in giving history Of the early
attacks Of the Russians upon Constantine
pie, says: "The memory OF these Arctic
fleets that seemed to descend from the Polar
circle left deep impression OF terror on the
imperia, city. BY the vulgar of every rank
it was asserted and believed that an eques-
TRAN statue in the square of Taurus was Sc
.cretly inscribed with prophecy how the
Russians in the last days should become
masters of Constantinople. y Gibbons De-
cline and Fall ofthe Roman Empire, chap
ter IS.
The question naturally arises, Where did
such an opinion originate? 1t came, have
no doubt, from the same source OF knowl-
edge with that of the Jewish high priest
who informed Alexander the Great that he
would succeed in conquering the Persian
Empire; which was the Jewish prophets.
Ezekiel 38, PIP, in part, reads thus: "Son
Magog, the chief prince Of Meshech and
.Tubal, and prophecy against him. And
say, Thus saith the Lord God, behold, I am
against thee, 0 Cog, the chief prince OF
Meshech aud Tubal; and will turn thee
back, and put hooks in thy jaws, and will
bring thee forth and all thy army-Persia,
Ethiopia, and Libya with them. =. I.
Conner I'D all bis bands; the house Of To-
rarmah Of the no,.hh quarters, and all his
bands and many people VIII thee. -: i.
After many days thou shalt be ylsltvu, In
the latter years thou shalt come into the
land that is brought back from the sword.
And thou shalt say, will 60 up to
the land OF unwalled villages. :. To
take spoil and to take prey" Daniel
II, 40-43, reads thus: "And at the time Of
the end shall the King of the South
push at him, and the King OF the
North shall come against him like a
whirlw ind, with chariots, and with horse
men, and with many ships; and he shall
enter into the countries, and shall ouer'o,o
and pass oUer. He shall enter also into the
glorious land, and MANY countries shall be
Ouerthro,era. -. Egypt and the Lybians and
the Philippians shall be at his steps," These
two quotations clearly bear upon the same
subiect-the characters, countries, times,
and places agreeing generally. Now the
question is, who is this Cog, or King OF the
North, who is to do these great things
The Jews, appointed by Ptolemy, Philadel.
plus, King OF Egypt, to translate the Old
Testament into the Greek, gave different
prince of Meshech and Tubal ITO that in
the English version-rendering the original
Goq,le, prince OF RoS. MeS0ch, and 1hobel;
so that the difference of the two TRANSACTIONS
turns upon the Hebrew word rosh being
regarded as proper or common noun.
KING James's translatorS took Jerome'S
view of it-that roSh was a common noun,
and rendered it as found in the English YER
sion. The question, however, has long
since been set at rest by the learned in
their adoption OF the rendering Of the
Alexandrine Jews.
The celebrated Bochart, about the year
1910, said in his "Researches in Sacred &C.
ography y that eros Is the most ancient
form under which history makes mention
of Russia; and that Ros and Nose properly
denoted the nations Of Russia and Mus
covy." ''It is creditable." says he, "that
from Rios and Mesech-that is, the Rhossl
and Moschi OF whom Ezekiel speaks-de-
-scended the Russian and Muscovites-na-
tons Of the greatest celebrity in European
Scythld." And their own historians say
'sIt is related that the Russians, whom the
Greeks called Ros, and sometimes Rosos,
derived their name from Ros, valiant
man, who delivered his nation from the
yoke Of their tyrants." Thus we discern
the modern names OF Russia and OF Mos
cow, or Moskwa, in the ancient names o.
Ros and Nose, or Muse, and In lobe, Tubl
or Thobel, the modern river Tobol, the city
Tobolium, or Tobolski. Hence Cog, tn,
Prince Of Ros, Nose, and Tobl, autocrat o.
the Russians, Muscovites, and Siberians, Of
all the Russias. He is also styled Cog o
the land of Magogue as we'll rs Prince o
all the Russias. Mechelis says "Gogue i
the name Of sovereign and Magogue hi!
people," *.
Magoguc and Conner were the sons OF ia
phet, and Tcgarmah the sou Of Conner; ant
Josephus, Herodotus, and Diodorus Sicu
Jus, and others, agree that their descendant!
went west and south from their primitive
seats-the mountains Of Taurus and Anna
nus-into Asia, and across the Don and
Danube into Europe-G Conner founding tht
Gomari, whom the Greeks called Galatae
and Magogue the MagogR, whom the Greeks
called SythB-and that from those peoples
Z sprang the great French omari and Ger
man agoga nations. So we are enabled
to trace this Cog to the Car OF Russia anc
the countries he Is to conquer-most o.
those OF Europe and Asia. BAN1sTER.
Hull ax Courthouse, February 10. 1877.
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