An exposition on the fourteene first chapters of Genesis, by way of question and answere Collected out of ancient and recent writers: both briefely and subtilly propounded and expounded. By Abraham [sic] Rosse of Aberden, preacher at St. Maries neere South-Hampton, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.

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Title: An exposition on the fourteene first chapters of Genesis, by way of question and answere Collected out of ancient and recent writers: both briefely and subtilly propounded and expounded. By Abraham [sic] Rosse of Aberden, preacher at St. Maries neere South-Hampton, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.
Author: Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
Publication: London :: Printed by B[ernard] A[lsop] and T[homas] F[awcet] for Anth: Vpphill, and are to be sold at the White-Lyon, in Pauls Church-yard,; 1626.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Genesis -- Examinations, questions, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
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Q. What was Gomer?

A. The father of the Cimmerians as He∣rodotus thinketh, or rather as Iosephus the fa∣ther of the Galatians, who first were called Galles, and hauing left their owne countrie, seated themselues in Asia-minor, where be∣ing mingled with the Greeks, they were cal∣led Gallo-greci, and afterwards Galatae; vnto these Galatians, Peter writ his first epistle; in this country Paul trauelled sundry times and preached, afterward hee beeing captiue at Rome, from thence writ an epistle to them. Gomer also was the name of Diblaims daugh∣ter the wife of Hosea, Hos. 1.