And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Quarters - `corners.'
Gog and Magog - (notes, Ezekiel 38:1-23; Ezekiel 39:1-29.) Magog represents northern nations of Japheth's posterity, whose ideal head is Gog (Genesis 10:2). A has but one article to "Gog and Magog," whereby the prince and the people are closely connected; B reads the second article before Magog. Hiller ('Onomasticon') explains both as lofty, elevated.
To battle - `to the war,' in 'Aleph (') A B; but Andreas omits 'the.'