138. That Gog is the Goth, whose coming
forth we have already seen, and over whom victory in days to come is
promised, according to the word of the Lord: “And they
shall spoil them, who had been their despoilers, and plunder them, who
had carried off their goods for a prey, saith the Lord. And it
shall be in that day, that I will give to Gog”—that is, to
the Goths—“a place that is famous, for Israel an
high-heaped tomb of many men, of men who have made their way to the
sea, and it shall reach round about, and close the mouth of the valley,
and there [the house of Israel shall] overthrow Gog and all his
multitude, and it shall be called the valley of the multitude of
Gog: and the house of Israel shall overwhelm them, that the land
may be cleansed.” Ezek. xxxix. 10 ff.