| Charles Rollin, James Bell - 1839 - 666 páginas
...that he alone guided1 and settled all mankind, agreeably to the dictates of his mercy and justice : " The Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth."1 It is true, indeed, that God, even in those early ages, bad a peculiar regard for that people,... | |
| 1840 - 870 páginas
...us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another'* gpeech. 8 k, and the other half of them held both Ilie spears, the shields, and the bow and thev left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD did... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1840 - 426 páginas
...they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do . . . So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth." Shall we pass on to the days of David? " The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men,... | |
| Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 páginas
...there was no similarity. Thus we see exemplified what the sacred historian asserts, when he says, " The Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth." * Vide Bocharti Phalcg ; Wells- Hist. Geog. ; and Paxton-s Illustrations. LECTURE VI. COUNTRIES POSSESSED... | |
| George Moir Bussey - 1840 - 282 páginas
...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 may not understand one another's speech." So the Lord brought a storm upon the earth, with thick clouds and darkness, and thunder and rain. The builders... | |
| John Marsh - 1840 - 480 páginas
...erecting a city and tower which should make them one vast and powerful people. " Go to," said he, " let us go down and confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." The builders of Babel were thrown into confusion and scattered abroad, and the... | |
| Thomas Hirst - 1841 - 380 páginas
...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 may not understand...scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the whole earth." This event seems to have been contemplated in the command and blessing which God... | |
| 1880 - 506 páginas
...point to one striking sentence of a very ancient historian, and ask, May not this reveal the secret? "So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth." In regard to the probable age of the earliest settlements I have just given a significant hint. It... | |
| William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 744 páginas
...there was no similarity. Thus we see exemplified what the sacred listorian asserts when he says, " The Lord scattered -them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth." By this event, considered as a dispensation of Providence, bounds were set to the contagion of wickedness;... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 552 páginas
...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 may not understand...abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth." In the first verse in this account, it is said that the whole earth was of one language ; and that... | |
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