 | Heinrich Zschokke - 1838 - 612 pages
...dawn, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city." IT is true, that to all mortals is given, by the wisdom and... | |
 | William Balfour Winning - 1838 - 314 pages
...and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth" (Gen. xi. 4—9). I have already shown it to have been characteristic of the Pelasgian tribes, that... | |
 | Philip Henry - 1839 - 342 pages
...may not understand one another's speech, and so be unable to continue their proceeding. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the LORD... | |
 | Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 pages
...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... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1840 - 426 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 744 pages
...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;... | |
 | 1880 - 506 pages
...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 Osburn - 1841 - 266 pages
...down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord... | |
 | William Osburn - 1841 - 262 pages
...down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did... | |
 | 1842 - 514 pages
...the plains of Shinar, the people were dispersed over the whole earth. His words are : " So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth." Gen, 11; 8, 9. That America had been submerged by the flood, and that the waters had retired from its... | |
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So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth ; and they left off to build the city. 
