12<\/strong>. On “take a spoil” cf. Eze 29:19<\/span>; Isa 10:6<\/span>. The phrase “turn the hand upon” is always used in a hostile sense (Isa 1:25<\/span>). Eze 38:11-12<\/span> give the prophet’s idea of the condition of the restored community and of the state of the world in those days which permits it. He does not furnish details, but previous prophecies (ch. 25 32) describe how all the nations formerly hostile to Israel are humbled or taken out of the way. The period of Israel’s restoration is a time of universal peace. Only distant nations on the outskirts of the world, that have never entered upon the stage of history, remain unaware of the fame and glory of the God of Israel (Isa 66:19<\/span>). The same circle of ideas appears in the passage relating to the period of a thousand years in the Apocalypse: outside the historical world there remain distant nations unaffected by the kingdom of Christ.<\/p>\n midst of the land<\/em> ] of the earth<\/strong>, lit. the navel<\/em> of the earth, i.e. the mountain land of Israel, the centre of the earth, cf. Eze 38:5<\/em><\/span>. The prophet speaks of the world as known in his day.<\/p>\n Verse 12<\/span>. To take a spoil – and a prey<\/B><\/I>] When Antiochus took Jerusalem he gave the pillage of it to his soldiers, and spoiled the temple of its riches, which were immense. See Joseph<\/I>. WAR, B. i. c. 1.<\/P> <\/p>\n To take a spoil:<\/B> the Scythians, and those other nations in this army, were from their original a violent, unjust, and thievish people, addicted to robberies; and they now, under this Gog, follow the old trade. <\/P> To take a prey; <\/B>the same repeated. To turn thine hand<\/I>: either it speaks the ease with which Gog presumeth he shall do what he intendeth, or the sad desolation which he would cause to return upon the Jews. <\/P> The desolate places; <\/B>made so by the Babylonians, and continued so till of late years past. <\/P> Now inhabited; <\/B>newly repeopled and rebuilt upon their return out of Babylon. <\/P> Which have gotten cattle and goods; <\/B>or which are now by their husbandry and diligence getting somewhat of estate and riches; or, as we read it, <\/P> have gotten; <\/B>for it was to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes from their return near three hundred and fifty years, and from the finishing the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah to the time of Antiochus two hundred years, so that in that time the Jews might be grown rich enough to be accounted a great prey to him, if he were this Gog. However, such the Jews will be thought, when Gog attempts this enterprise. <\/P> <\/p>\n 12. midst of the land<\/B>literally,”the navel” of the land (Jud9:37<\/span>, Margin<\/I>). So, in Eze5:5<\/span>, Israel is said to be set “in the midst of the nations”;not physically, but morally, a central position for being a blessingto the world: so (as the favored or “beloved city,” Re20:9<\/span>) an object of envy. GROTIUStranslates, “In the height<\/I> of the land” (so Eze38:8<\/span>), “the mountains of Israel,” Israel being morallyelevated above the rest of the world.<\/P><\/p>\n To take a spoil, and to take a prey<\/strong>,…. These are the words of Gog continued; suggesting that he should have no occasion to fight; should have nothing else to do but to seize upon the goods and plunder the substance of these people:<\/p>\n to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited<\/strong>: such as were before desolate, and had lain long so, but now peopled and cultivated; these he would attack and demolish, and make a spoil and prey of:<\/p>\n and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations<\/strong>; a description of the Jews, as before; Eze 38:8<\/span><\/p>\n which have gotten cattle and goods<\/strong>; so that it should seem that Gog or the Turks will not immediately attack the Jews upon their possession of the land of Judea; but some time after, when they have settled in it, and have acquired much wealth and riches in cattle and goods, and then think to have a fine booty of them:<\/p>\n that dwell in the midst of the land<\/strong>; or, “the navel of the land” p; which may design Jerusalem, situated in the midst of the land of Israel, and so called the navel of it, as that is in the midst of the body; as Enna is said by Cicero to be the navel of Sicily: or, as Kimchi thinks, the land of Israel itself is meant; which is in the midst of the world, and so the navel of it; though the former seems best.<\/p>\n p , Sept.; “in [vel] super umbilico terrae”, Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius.<\/p>\n (12) In the midst of the land.<\/strong>Literally, in the navel of the earth.<\/em> (See Note on Eze. 5:5<\/span>.) The important position of Israel in reference to the other nations of the earth combined with its unsuspecting security and its riches to tempt the cupidity of Gog and his allies,<\/p>\n 12<\/strong>. <\/strong> In the midst of the land <\/strong> The R.V., margin, gives “in the navel of the earth.” Palestine was really the center of the ancient civilized world. Winckler sees a reference here to the Mount of the Gods. (See note Eze 28:14<\/span>.) Cheyne ( Expository Times, <\/em> 1899), by a slight change of text, translates “on the high places of the land.” (Compare Deu 32:13<\/span>.)<\/p>\n Eze 38:12<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Upon the desolate places<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> Judaea is here described as a land which lay desolate <\/em>before the Jews returned to it. The Jews after the captivity were a people gathered out of the nations, <\/em>for they were very much mixed with other people. <\/p>\n Eze 38:12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places [that are now] inhabited, and upon the people [that are] gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.<\/p>\n Ver. 12. To take a spoil.<\/strong> ] Heb., To spoil the spoil, and to prey the prey. The antichristian rout are all for robbing and ravaging. What vast sums of money raked the Pope once out of England, which was therefore truly and trimly called by Pope Innocent IV, Hortus deliciarum et puteus inexhaustus,<\/em> His delicate garden, and pit that could not be drawn dry. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n To turn thine hand.<\/strong> ] To plunder them to the very bones, as they say. There was a time when the Pope’s receivers here left not so much money in the whole kingdom as they either carried with them, or sent to Rome before them. Of this Papal expilation King John heavily complained, and could get no remedy, but Henry VIII would bear it no longer. England is no more a babe, said he, in his protestation against the Pope; there is no man here but now he knoweth that they do foolishly that give gold for lead, more weight of that than they receive of this, &c. a<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Acts and Mon., <\/em> 990.<\/p>\n To take a spoil, &c. The Hebrew exhibits the Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6) = “To spoil a spoil and to prey a prey”. Compare Psa 83:4, &c. <\/p>\n upon = against. A special various reading called Sevin (App-34) reads “over”. <\/p>\n People: i.e. Israel, as in Eze 39:13; not in verses: Eze 38:6, Eze 38:8, Eze 38:9, Eze 6:15, Eze 6:22. <\/p>\n midst. Hebrew = navel. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunet), App-6, for the middle. <\/p>\n land = earth. Hebrew ‘eretz. Compare Eze 38:18. Of which Palestine is in the centre, politically and morally, if not exactly geographically. <\/p>\n take a spoil, and to take a prey: Heb. spoil the spoil, and to prey the prey, Eze 29:19, *marg. Isa 10:6, Jer 30:16 <\/p>\n turn: Isa 1:24, Isa 1:25, Amo 1:8, Zec 13:7 <\/p>\n the desolate: Eze 36:33-35, Jer 32:43, Jer 32:44, Jer 33:12, Jer 33:13, Zec 1:12, Zec 1:17 <\/p>\n and upon: Eze 38:8, Zec 10:8-10 <\/p>\n midst: Heb. navel, Jdg 9:37, *marg. <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Ch 5:4 – General Psa 76:4 – mountains<\/p>\n Eze 38:12. This verse tells the subject of the deliberations which the people of Magog had as stated In the preceding one. The Israelites will have acquired cattle and goods after their return from Babylon and these invaders will plot to get them. That is, it is here predicted they will do so at the time following the return.<\/p>\n To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places [that are now] inhabited, and upon the people [that are] gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. 12. On “take a spoil” cf. 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