...excellent, apparel, beauty, wit, learning, riches, power, buildings, — ' Is not this great Babel, that I have built by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty Т —whatsoever it is, all these feed the lusts of the mind. Therefore now many lusts that...

...than himself in building his great Babylon, ascribe the honour of it to himself, Dan. iv. 30 : 'Is not this great Babylon that I have built by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?' But faith teaeheth the creature to blot out his own name, and write the name of God in its...

...their gorgeous land, was that of the Eastern despot whom God saw fit to humble : ' Is not this the great Babylon that I have built by the might of my power, and for the honour of iny majesty ?' Success, flattery, and power had almost obscured to them the moral proportions and the...

...possession that he may glory in it, as Nebuchadnezzar gloried when he walked in his palace and said, " Is not this great Babylon that I have built ... by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?" (Dan. iv. 30.) While in him then it is "the lust of the eye and the pride...

...nations and by the labour of their captive bands, he exclaimed — " Is not this great Babylon which I have built by the might of my power and for the honour of my majesty?"" — was rife in the people generally, who, naturally enough, believed themselves superior...

...Babel. 30 The king spake and said, Is not this great Babel that I have built for a house of the kingdom, that I have built by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? 31 While the word was in the mouth of the king, a voice fell from heaven, saying, To thee...

...may seem, alone, you find him, like a fool, talking to himself, ' Is not this the great Babel which I have built by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? ' As many a scholar in his own heart eaith, Was it not such an act I kept, or disputation...

...may seem, alone, you find him, like a fool, talking to himself, ' Is not this the great Babel which I have built by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? ' As many a scholar in his own heart eaith, Was it not such an act I kept, or disputation...

...possession that he may glory in it, as Nebuchadnezzar gloried as he walked in his palace and said, " Is not this great Babylon that I have built ... by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" (Dan. iv. 30). While he then represents those whom " the lust of the eye and the pride of...

...sentiment which had its type and reached its culminating-point in the ancient monarch, when he said, " Is not this great Babylon that I have built, by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty ? " Much of the practical skill, mechanical genius, and executive capacity...