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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63902	An attempt towards an explanation of the theology and mythology of the antient pagans. The first part by John Turner.	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1687 (1687)	Wing T3302; ESTC R23755	145,740	311

all the rest to correct the Hebrew from the Seventy but the Seventy from the Hebrew Wherefore instead of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Og and Gog and Agag are the same and so Num. 24. 7. where it is in the Hebrew vejarim meagag malco His King shall be higher then Agag There the Seventy render it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Kingdom of Gog shall be exalted where though they appear to have followed another reading then the Hebrew Copies do at present and a reading certainly much inferiour to it or rather directly opposite to the sense of the place yet thus much is certain that what the Hebrew calls Agag they have rendred by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 taking no notice of the Guttural as in the instances already produced Haman the Agagite is as much as Haman that was descended of Agag not that Agag who together with his whole Family and consequently his posterity too was destroyed and cut off by Saul and Samuel but some other and I chuse to Interpret it of this Antidiluvian Agag or Ogyges and that this is spoken of him to make him appear the more Illustrious that so his fall in the sequel of the Story might be the more remarkable and signal and if you say that he also perished together with all his Family and dependents in the Floud and therefore could leave no posterity behind him I grant upon supposition that he is not the same person with Noah that this is very true but yet the Greeks had a Tradition among them which without question they received from the East that Ogyges escaped in the Deluge that happened in his time for so Africanus in Eusebius speaking of that Ogyges or as he calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whom the first deluge took Euseb praep evang l. 10. its name saith that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saved when others generally perished in the waters so that by this Tradition he is confounded with Noah who did really make his escape but there is a Testimony of Cedrenus which makes him to have perished and this depended upon a Tradition that made Ogyges to be a distinct person from Noah who was saved by all which it appears that the History concerning him is as I have already said and proved very obscure confused and uncertain partly by the corruption of the Tradition it self to which all Antiquity is unavoidably subject and partly by the mistakes and Anachronismes of the Greeks the causes of which I have already partly represented the words of Cedrenus are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is in the time of Moses there was a certain great or Gigantick man of the seed of Japheth who being a native of Attica reigned over it for the space of thirty and two Years his name was Ogygus and in his time happened that Floud which was peculiar to Attica in which himself perished and all that province was drowned in which words there is nothing at all true as I think I have already made it appear by discovering the grounds of the mistakes in them but only that there was such a man as Ogygus or Ogyges that he was a great or Gigantick person and that a great Floud happened in his time only when he saith that this Gigantick Ogygus was of the seed of Japheth there seems in this also as well as in what hath been said concerning his being King of Attica and co-temporary with Moses to be a stricture of truth in the corruption it self for in the first place the Scripture speaking of the men that lived before the Floud saith expresly that there were Gyants in those days Gen. 6. 4. and again in the Relation of the lewdness of those times which drew down the Deluge afterwards upon them it saith that the Sons of God saw the Daughters of Men lb. v. 2. that they were fair in the Hebrew it is chi toboth hennab that they were goodly or had a goodly aspect and the sense would have been the same if it had said chi japhoth hennah that they were fair as our Translation renders it wherefore since by the Sons of God are understood the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sons of the Great men or Princes of those times who did what they pleased without Controll as some of the Ancient Interpreters have rendred it Ogyges at this rate will be a Prince descended of one of those Japhoth those fair ones to whom the Sons of God went in and begat Sons and Daughters upon them and this is all that was at the bottom of that mistake of the Greeks that Ogygus was descended of the Family of Japheth to confirm which yet further it is to be observed that Scripture stories delivered down by Tradition in the East from thence yet were not always delivered in Scripture words but only in words of a like signification or words relating to the circumstances of the Story as I have elsewhere observed out Discourse of the Tetragrammaton and also in that of the Messias c. 1. of Bochartus who took his hint from sanchuniathon that Sarah in the Eastern Tradition was called Annobret because she was past the time of Child-bearing and Isaac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Jachid because he was the only Son and the like so that Japhoth being perfectly synonymous to Toboth and indeed more properly signifying beauty then the other here is all that can be desired to make it at least a tollerable conjecture Again as from Agag is Ogyges so from Gog by the Elision of the Guttural is Gyges both of them the same person as I will now prove and as Cedrenus saith of Ogygus that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great or Gigantick person so Ovid represents the Ancient Gyges for there were several afterwards of the name in his fourth De Tristibus Eleg. 7. Credam prius ora Medusae Gorgonis anguineis cincta fuisse comis Et canes utero sub virginis esse Chimaeram A truce quae flammis separet angue leam Quadrupedesque● homines cum pectore pectora junctos Tergeminumque virum tergeminumque canem Sphingaque harpyias serpentipedesque Gigantes Centimanumque Gygen semibovemque virum Haec ego cuncta prius quàm te carissime credam Mutatum curam deposuisse mei Where though he reckons all these as so many impossibilities and figments of Antiquity yet there is no question but in all or most of them there was a ground of v. Pale phat in opusculo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 truth though miserably adulterated and disguised by the vanity or ignorance of the Greeks particularly as to Gyges when he calls him Centimanum hundred handed it may very well be Interpreted of the extent of his power or the fierceness and violence of his Reign and what he adds afterwards in the next words semibovemque virum halfe man half Ox may refer to the brutish and