...were, said, " with our tongues will we prevail; our lips are our own ; who is Lord over us."—" Let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven :" that is, a very high tower, Deut. i. 28.—=-" And let us make us a name, lest," &c. The object...

...burn them thoroughly, and they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. — 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...

...men journeyed eastward, they found the plains of Shinaar fertile and convenient ; and they said, " Go to, let Us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach to heaven. They had brick for stone, which they burnt thoroughly, and slime (that is bitumen) had they for mortar."...

...in sinning, by how much we are more prone to evil than good. It was a proud word — " Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven." They were newly come down from the hills unto the plains, and now think of raising up of an hill of...

...tongues. In this structure there were doubtless very strong traces of that arrogant boast, — ' Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven,' Gen. xi. 4. t Alluding to that prodigious instance of profuseness, ostentation, and idolatrous madness,...

...This is agreeable to the account, which the builders of Babel give of their design. " 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," or as it may be rendered, a mark or sign, " lest...

...again. Avarice and ambition only were the first builders of towns, and founders of empire ; 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...

...again. Avarice and ambition only were the first builders of towns, and founders of empire ; 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...

...cohabitation, with (perhaps) some reserves to provide for their safety against a second storm, they cry, ' 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...

...this. The children of Noah increased and spread abroad upon the face of the earth, " 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...