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citation of Genesis x, 3, instead of Thogarmah has Thorgames,* 

 says that he was the father of the " Thorgamaians, who, as the 

 Greeks resolved, were called Phrygians " ; and, in keeping with 

 this, Herodotus tells us that in Xerxes' vast army, which was 

 composed of contingents from all countries under his sway, 

 " The Armenians, who are Phrygian colonists, were armed in 

 the Phrygian fashion. Both nations," he continues, " were 

 under the command of Artochmes, who was married to one of 

 the daughters of Darius " ; and this common equipment and 

 command extended to no other contingent in that great array.f 



Thus the third branch of Gomer's family are shown to have 

 formed, long before our era, several of the large and well- 

 established nations of Asia Minor, whose territory ran through 

 three-fourths of the length east and west of modern Turkey-in- 

 Asia. The prophet Ezekiel speaks of " the house of Togarmah 

 of the north quarters. "J The appellation is embedded in the 

 description of a still future conflict ; but whether ii refers to 

 Togarmah's tribes as they were located then or as they lie now, 

 it is equally correct ; for from beyond the Caucasus up to 

 Ararat the Lesghians and Georgians are still spread, and, thouo-h 

 the name of Phrygian died out with the Eoman empire, tht; 

 Armenians (who we may infer have absorbed their Phrygian 

 kinsfolk) now stretch their name and nation in clumps and 

 chains from Ararat to the Levant and to the ^gean Sea. 



Of the second branch we have yet to speak, or speak more 

 definitely. The statement of Josephus is, " Eiphath founded 

 the Eiphathaioi, now called Paphlagones." Herodotus, after 

 speaking of the vestiges of the Kimmerioi on the northern 

 sliore of the Euxine, says, " It appears likevnse that the 

 Kimmerioi, when they fled into Asia to escape the Scythians, 

 made a settlement in the peninsula where the Greek city of 

 Sinope was afterwards built."§ The languJige shows that this is 

 only an inference drawn from his finding Kimmerioi or else 



* Bryce. The final h in this name and in Elishah of ver, 4 he 

 omits, simply because there was no proper way of representing it in 

 Greek writing. t Her. VII, 73. 



X If we adopt the revised rendering (as I onght rather in consistency 

 to have done) " in the uttermost parts of the north," we have concord 

 again, though not so obviously ; for the Armenians noiv are spread in 

 abundance all over the southern coast-land of the Black Sea, which then 

 would have been accounted " the uttermost parts of the north," much as 

 Sheba in Southern Arabia was counted " the uttermost parts of the 

 south " in the Saviour's time (Matt, xii, 42, and Luke xi, 31). 



^ IV, 12. 



