 | 1850 - 594 pages
...unconscious and undesigned enacting over again of the policy of the builders on the plain of Shinar — " Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." Building a city is framing a system of doctrines and worship ; erecting a tower is... | |
 | United States - 1851 - 508 pages
...169. Heaven is not so far distant but that the builders of the tower of Babel hoped to reach it. " And they said, go to, let us build us a city and a...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 250 pages
...us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.... | |
 | John Owen - Holy Spirit - 1852 - 646 pages
...cohabitation, with perhaps some reserves to provide for their safety against a second storm, they cry, " Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," Gen. xi. 4. First, They lay down their aim and design, and then let out the means... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Bible - 1852 - 384 pages
...they imagine to do. " Go to," is their language, for they encourage themselves in the evil matter ; " Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." . And lo! a place is found which seems expressly formed for the carrying out of their... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1852 - 482 pages
...dispersion and colonization of the early world. The architects thus express their audacious purpose—" Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top...name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." They wished to construct a monument of enduring fame, and chose the best materials... | |
 | John Owen - 1852 - 644 pages
...cohabitation, with perhaps some reserves to provide for their safety against a second storm, they cry, " Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth," Gen. xi. 4. First, They lay down their aim and design, and then let out the means... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 718 pages
...make brick, and * burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. essions unto God. That is excellent advice given by the wise man : LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the. children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said,... | |
 | Susan Warner - Bible - 1853 - 868 pages
...make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and sliine had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came bonm to see tb,e ritn anb the totner, tnhkh, the thjlbrcn of men... | |
 | 1853 - 764 pages
...make brick,3 and turn them 4 thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime4 had they for mortar. came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed...would not show them the land which the LORD sware 5 of the whole earth. 'And the LORD came down6 to see the city and the tower, 0 which the children... | |
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And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 
