| William Wotton - 1730 - 80 pages
...altered than 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, becaufe...all the Earth; and from thence did the LORD fcatter them Abroad upon the Face of all the Earth ; .Gen. xi. i,— 9. b Notum eft Labium fignificare hie... | |
| John Hutchinson - 1749 - 454 pages
...abroad from thence, upon the Face of the whole Earth, and they left off to build the City. Ver. 9. Therefore is the Name of it called Babel; becaufe the Lord did there confound the Language (or LIP) of all the Earth ; and from thence did the Lord fcatter them abroad upon the Face of the whole... | |
| James Parsons - 1767 - 472 pages
...fcattered '" them abroad from thence upon the face of the earth, " and they left off to build the city ; therefore is the " name of it called Babel, becaufe...did there " confound the language of all the earth, &c." Now becaufe it is written by Mofes, that the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth,... | |
| Henry Owen - 1773 - 328 pages
...explained iti the following verfe:—" Therefore is the name of the city called Babel" (viz. confufan) " becaufe the Lord did there confound the language of...all the earth: and from thence did the Lord fcatter them abroad on the face of all the earth":" that is, when, God, by the confufion of their language,... | |
| John Richardson - 1778 - 514 pages
...this part pf his own evidence becomes decifive of their fate. It is a two-edged weapon unfldlfully handled : for if the -whole earth, in one line, means...the earth : " and from thence did the Lord fcatter them " abroad upon the face of all the earth." Now, if the Confufion of Speech was confined to the... | |
| Universal history - 1779 - 492 pages
...but one language in the world, at the time of the building 'of Babel; which city was fo called, •' becaufe the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth, and from thence did fcattet them abroad upon the face of all the earth." Defcriptian ofBatil. moft we can allow, with Buxtorf... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 530 pages
...evil of ohe-another; then is the land's name juftly turned to a Babel, Gen. xi. 9. " The name of it is called Babel, becaufe the Lord did there confound...all the earth, and from thence did the Lord fcatter them abroad up»n the face of the earth." When people's hearts and tongues are divided and confounded,... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...the earth ; and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. These are the generations of Shem : Shem was an... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 446 pages
...tvit/ioiit attempting it any more. Therefore is the name of it called Babel, that is, confusion ; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth ; and from thence did the LORD scalier them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 10 Thcse./b//OT»/7?,,' [are] the generations ofShcin,... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 492 pages
...the earth ; and they left off to build the city : therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth ; and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. It had been in the preceding chapter men' Genesis.... | |
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