 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - History, Ancient - 1807 - 492 pages
...make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...they begin to do ; and now nothing will be restrained jrom them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 494 pages
...make us a name, lest ice be scattered abroad upon the Jace of the whole earth. And the Lord came dcwn to see the city and the tower, which the children...they begin to do ; and now nothing will be restrained Jrom them whi&h they have imagined to do. Go tot let us go down, and there confound their language,... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 502 pages
...scattered abroad upon the Jace of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the to-a-er, -which the children of men builded. And the Lord said,...do ; and now nothing will be restrained from them iphiqh they have imagined to do. Go to, let tts go dozen, and there confound their language, .that... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...the pride of their hearts had begun to build, so took notice of what they did and meant to do: XI. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and...restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. And the Lord decreed thus with himself; Behold, the people is one in heart, joining together in one... | |
 | Great Britain - 1808 - 534 pages
...was very much to this effect, as appears in the 1 1th chapter of Genesis, verses 6, 7 and 8 : viz. " And the Lord said, " behold, the people is one, and...restrained from them, which they have imagined to d. Go to, let us go down, and then confound their language, that they may not understand one another's... | |
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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. 
