[Footnote 17: A bishop of Wurtzburgh submitted his opinion
to a reverend abbot; but he more gravely decided, that Gog
and Magog were the spiritual persecutors of the church;
since Gog signifies the root, the pride of the Heresiarchs,
and Magog what comes from the root, the propagation of their
sects. Yet these men once commanded the respect of mankind,
(Fleury, Hist. Eccles. tom. xi. p. 594, &c.)]