| 1729 - 502 Seiten
...make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for flone, and /lime had they for mortar j and they faid, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower. Now what is the antecedent to thefe feveral they's ? Is it not the whole Earth ? A name of... | |
| Edward Harley - 1730 - 332 Seiten
...make Prick, and burn them throughly. And they had Brick for Stone, and Slime had they for Morter. 4 And they faid, Go to, let us build us a City and a Tower, whofe Top may reach unto Heaven, and let us make us a Name, left we be fcattered abroad upon the Face of the whole Earth.... | |
| Edward Harley - 1735 - 764 Seiten
...make Brick, and burn them throughly. And they had Brick for Stone, and Slime had they for Morter. 4 And they faid, Go to, let us build us a City and a Tower, whole Top may reach unto Heaven, and let us make us a Name, left we be fcattered abroad upon... | |
| Henry Owen - 1773 - 328 Seiten
...flejb: yet his days Jhall be an hundred and twenty years. p. i3i. SERMON VII. GEN. xi. ver. 4—8. And they faid, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whofe top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lejl we befcattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.... | |
| John Woolman - 1775 - 348 Seiten
...3, 4. This Babel, or Babylon, was built in the fpirit of felf-exaltation : " Let us build us a €t city and a tower, whofe top may reach to " heaven, and let us make us a name." Gen. xi. 4. In departing from an humble truft in God, and following a felfifh fpirit, people have intentions... | |
| John Wesley - 1791 - 716 Seiten
...to unity again. Avarice and ambition only were the firft builders of towns and founders of empiie ; they faid. Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whofe top may reach unto heaven ; and Ut us make us a name, If ft we l>e fcattered abroad upon the face of the earth. What... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1799 - 300 Seiten
...their anceftours' ruin, how quickly have they forgotten a flood! It was a proud word, " Come, " let us build us a city and a tower, " whofe top may reach to heaven." Moft fhameful arrogance — moft ignorant prefumption in man who is a worm, in the fon of man who is... | |
| John Robinson, Piomingo - 1810 - 328 Seiten
...induced men in early ages to say to each other: " Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven ; and let us make us a name " [cOMMUNICATION.] Piotningo, As I know that you have perused with considerable attention our sacred... | |
| John Murray - 1831 - 324 Seiten
...the descendants of Noah erected on the plains of Shinar. " Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth" — a structure that might "lift its... | |
| William Allen - 1832 - 322 Seiten
...or Babylon, was built in the spirit of self-exaltation : " Let uj build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make us a name." — Geu. xi. 4. In departing from an humble trust in God, and following a selfish spirit, people have... | |
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