...them thoroughly. 2» And they made brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 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...

...by the erection of a high place which all commentators agree to have been of the pyramidical form. ' Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top shall reach to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name.1 The word sem (rendered name) used by the...

...and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 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...

...by the erection of a high place, which all commentators agree to have been of the pyramidal form. " Go to ! let us build us a city, and a tower whose top shall reach to heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name." Engaged on this work they wore dispersed...

...of concentration was adopted by a large proportion of the human race, whose ambitious leader 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...

...for mortar." Fourthly, a national spirit seems to have arisen, with a wish to consolidate society; "Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven : " is not this a graphic manner of representing the great and gradual work of...

...plains, while man became vain of his power and arrogant in his imagined supremacy. " 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...

...'burn them througlily. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, °the sons of Simeon; Pjemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, an may reach unto J Heb. a man »aid to his neighbour. ' Heb. burn them to a burning. ' Deut. i. 28. necessity...

...and 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...

...glory, our labour is but lost. This was the case with those who attempted to build Babel, saying, " Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name." (Gen. 1 1. 4.) If we would not have our labour...