 | William Sherlock - 1715 - 474 pagine
...language, fo that they could not underfland one another's Speech ; and by this means, fcattered them ahroad from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left off to huild the City. Now not to take notice, that this was the moft ready way to people the whole Earth,... | |
 | Edward Harley - 1730 - 332 pagine
...the City and the Tower, which the Children of Men builded. 6 And the LORD faid, Behold, the People is one, and they have all one Language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be reftrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their... | |
 | William Wotton - 1730 - 80 pagine
...particular Punifhment upon thefe Men. What the Text fays is only this: The LORD /'aid, Behold the People is one, and they have all ONE LANGUAGE; and this they begin to do -, and now Nothing will be reftrained from them, that they have imagined to do. Go to, let go down, and there C 0 NFOUND their... | |
 | John Chapman - 1731 - 58 pagine
...a Pafiage a little lower feems to be a clear and indifputablc confutation of it, in verfe 7. Let us go down and there confound their Language, that they may not understand one another's Speech. Thefe laft words have a fingular Weight and Authority in them, and ferve not... | |
 | Edward Harley - 1735 - 764 pagine
...they begin to do : and now nothing will be reftrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their Language, that they may not underftand one anothers Speech. 8 c So the LORD fcattered ' D «*- ***«• r Remember the themabroadfromthenceupon... | |
 | James Parsons - 1767 - 472 pagine
...the fixth verfe of the eleventh chapter it is written : " and the Lord faid, *' behold the people is one, and they have all one language, and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be reftrained from them which they have imagined to do." This plainly fhews, that nothing but their pride... | |
 | Henry Owen - 1773 - 328 pagine
...language, that they may Hot underfland one Bother'* fpetch. And the Lord /aid, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be rejlra'med from them, which they have imagined to do. So the LfOrd fcattered them abroad from thence... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1808 - 540 pagine
...wili be restrained " from them, which they have imagined to " d. Go to, Jet us go down, and then " confound their language, that they may " not understand one another's speech. So " the Lord scattered themabroad from thence " upon the face of all the earth." Herein, yoo say, is implied the necessity... | |
 | Joanna Southcott - 1804 - 606 pagine
...NnaVi. in that. THE rAMTLtARITY OP COD WITH MAN. 105 speak in ver. 6, 7 ? — Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing willbe restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Let us go down, and there confound their... | |
 | 1803 - 430 pagine
...confound their language." This quaintness is indecent, and the reason given for it is worse, for, " now nothing will " be restrained from them which they have imagined to do." This is representing the almighty as jealous of their getting into heaven. The story is too ridiculous,... | |
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And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they... 
