 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...the Lord confounded their Language, that they might not undertiand one anotlier's Speech : And (rom thence did the Lord fcatter them abroad upon the Face of all the Earth. d Since which time the Lord weakned the Strength of Man, and (hortned his Days. • Gen. 4. i. Geu.... | |
 | William Wotton - Babel, Tower of - 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...fcatter them Abroad upon the Face of all the Earth ; .Gen. xi. i,— 9. b Notum eft Labium fignificare hie & in feqq. Sermanem? quod Labia non minor!... | |
 | 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 - Celtic languages - 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...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, had divided... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...for this part of his own evidence becomes decifive of their fate. It is a twoedged weapon unfkilfully handled ; for, if the whole earth, in one line, means...the earth ¡ and from thence did the Lord fcatter then abroad upon the face of all t he earth." Now, if the confufion of fpeech was confined to the Cuthites,... | |
 | 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 - Sermons - 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...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, then they... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1804 - 376 pages
...and then the Lord confounded their Language, that they might not underftand one another's Speech ; and from thence did the Lord fcatter them abroad upon the Face of all the Earth. k Since which Time the Lord weakened the Strength of Man, and fhortened his Days. " . , * Gen. 3. 24.... | |
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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. 
