 | Edward Harley - 1730 - 332 pages
...LORD came down to fee 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 - Babel, Tower of - 1730 - 80 pages
...inflicting this 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 - Language and languages - 1731 - 58 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Celtic languages - 1767 - 472 pages
...; and therefore in 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 pages
...there confound their 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 - Great Britain - 1808 - 540 pages
...very much to 'this effect, as appears in the 1 llh chapter of Genesis, verses (j, 7 and 8 : viz. " And the Lord said, " behold, the people is one, and they have " nil one hiiigu.tsn; ; and this they begin to " do: and HOW nothing wili be restrained " from them,... | |
 | Joanna Southcott - Prophecies - 1804 - 606 pages
...rnnrlp«:r«»nrl« tn tallr tr> 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... | |
 | Christianity - 1803 - 430 pages
...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,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 444 pages
...evidence of their ambitious designs : and now they apprehend nothing will be restrained from them, 7 which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down,...confound their language, that they may not understand 8 one another's speech. H So the LORD, by the confusion he introduced among them, scattered them abroad... | |
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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... 
