Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 10:3

3. And the Sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz , and Riphath , and Togarmah .

Whose Seed posse[illegible: 1+ letters]ed Pontus and Bithynia and the Neighbouring parts, from whom they to[illegible: 1+ letters]k the Names of th[illegible: 1+ letters] Lake and Haven called As[illegible: 1+ letters]ius, and the Sea called Aren[illegible: 1+ letters]s or Euxinus.

called Diphath. 1 Chron. 1. 6. The Letters Daleth and R[illegible: 1+ letters]h being oft [illegible: 1+ letters]nterchanged, as we shall see in other instances. His Posterity dwelled in or near Pontus and Bit[illegible: 1+ letters]ynia, where Mela and Pliny and Solinus place the Riph[illegible: 1+ letters]i, or Riphaces, and the Paphlagonians, who were antiently called Piphataei.

Whose Posterity are joyned with Gomers. See Ezek. 27. 14. and 38. 6. and were, as some think, the Phrygians and Galatians, and of them the Ga[illegible: 1+ letters]ls and Germans▪ Or, as others, the Armenians, and of them the Turks.