...burn them throughly. And they had 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...

...memory might be raised and supported to the perpetuating of an imaginary existence. So " 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." (Gen. xi. 4.) This was the origin of one schism...

...was the fragment of a vessel which had possibly contained them. — KEPPEL. Ver. 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...

...not of her plagues." This babel, or Babylon, was built in the spirit of self-exaltation : " Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven, and lei us make us a name." In departing from an humble trust in God, and in following a selfish spirit,...

...the Creator, knew the thoughts of men's hearts as well as their actions, they said one to another, " 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...

...brick for stone, and slime had they 4 Nimrod and his followers thought. for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may ' ji reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of...

...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...

...and in Jerusalem. There was consummate wisdom in the plan of the builders of Babel when they said, " Go to, let us build us A CITY and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven;" (Gen. 11:4;) for the very object of building a city was to contravene the Divine...

...world became sharers of their knowledge. In Gen. xi. it is stated, the people said one to another, " 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 surface of...

...in those times the whole earth was of one language and of one speech ! " And they (the people) said, go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach up unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest \ve be scattered abroad upon the face of...