 | 1864 - 192 pagina’s
...men is that they all should be one. " The whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. . . . 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." What were they doing ? Seeking unity ; seeking to bind themselves into one, by making... | |
 | 1864 - 430 pagina’s
...good. To this end the scattered families of the earth were first drawn together on the plains of Babel. "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." The Lord thwarted this first attempt by confounding their language. Afterwards, however,... | |
 | Henry A. Henry - 1864 - 264 pagina’s
...Shinar as a suitable place to carry out their object. They set about erecting an immense high Tower. "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." Gen. 11 : 4. The intention of the Almighty was, however, quite different. It was... | |
 | Melancthon Williams Jacobus - 1865 - 336 pagina’s
...make brick, and hurn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 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. a Deut. 1 : 2& netic types, produced by- a power inherent in human nature. Though... | |
 | 1865 - 848 pagina’s
...matter contained in Gen. xi. 1 — 9. "And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech, &c. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and...make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the * Vol. VI. (183C), p. 173. face of the whok earth . . . And the LORD said, ... Let us go down, and... | |
 | 1865 - 782 pagina’s
...the flood had lost its admonitory influence, and the impious design was formed and applauded — " 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." Gradually, the primitive doctrines of religion became submerged beneath the rising... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 pagina’s
...prepared themselves, they soon developed their intention, which was to build an immense and lofty tower. " 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," Gen. xi. 4. The expression employed by the sacred historian regarding this tower,... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1866 - 474 pagina’s
...of the Lord Bishop of Oxford, 1846.] SERMON XX. THE BUILDING UP OP THE FAMILY. GENESIS xi. 4. PAGE " 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." ACTS ii. 3, 4. " And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and... | |
 | Susan Bogert Warner - 1866 - 306 pagina’s
...tries to be independent of him." " Uncle Sam, where does it tell about that ?" " See, Tiny, here. ' They said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,...name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.' Nimrod was a powerful, ambitious man ; he knew that to make a great kingdom he must... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1866 - 440 pagina’s
...laid aside for awhile their petty differences and discontents, and exclaimed, as with one voice, — " 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." Let us erect a centre of unity for, the race. Let us consolidate and perpetuate mankind,... | |
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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. 
