GOATS. Under this name, the Hebrews sometimes understood the Princes of the people. I will visit the Goats, says the Lord in Zechary x. 3. I will begin my vengeance with the Princes of the People. And Isaiah xiv. 9. Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming, it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the great Goats of the earth: all the Kings, all the great Men. And Jeremiah, speaking Jer. l. 8. Matth. xxv. 33.to the Princes of the Jews, Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and be as the He-Goats before the flocks. Our Saviour in the Gospel says, that at the day of Judgement, the Goats, that is to say, the wicked, the reprobated, shall be placed on the left-hand, and condemned to eternal fire.
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