 | John Jacob Anderson - World history - 1876 - 514 pages
...Henry Rawlinson. * ** Tlie name Babylon is connected with a Hebrew word which means to confound^ * because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth' (Gen. xi. 9.) ; bnt the native etymology is Bab-il, *the gate of the god /(.' or, perhaps more simply... | |
 | P. L. Jacob - Art, Medieval - 1878 - 635 pages
...of all 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 " (Fig. 294). In the beginning of the fifth century the empire of the Ccesars had become, like Babel,... | |
 | P. L. Jacob - Art, Medieval - 1878 - 634 pages
...of all 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 " (Fig. 204). In the beginning of the fifth century the empire of the Caesars had become, like Babel,... | |
 | P. L. Jacob - Art, Medieval - 1878 - 630 pages
...of all 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 " (Fig. 294). In the beginning of the fifth century the empire of the Caesars had become, like Babel,... | |
 | John Morris (author of The new nation.) - 1880 - 536 pages
...build a city and a tower, and the Lord said, " The people is one, and this " they begin to do, and the Lord did there confound the " language of all the earth, and did scatter them abroad upon " the face of the earth " ; it is consequently certain that, according... | |
 | J B Roustaing - 1881 - 768 pages
...was, their otvn glory, and the resistance of the curse, and nevertheless " it is written" " The LOED did there confound the language of all the earth, and from thence did the LOUD scatter them abroad, upon the face of all the earth," by an interference from heaven, as marked... | |
 | Bible - 1881 - 676 pages
...though more probably by both (Keil), or possibly by the first insensibly leading to the second. — the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them. As the result not simply of their growing discord, disiensio animorum, per quam factum iit} ut qui... | |
 | T. D. Hemming, E. Freeman, David Meakin - Cities and towns - 1994 - 268 pages
...face of all 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. (Genesis, xi, 1-9) The second extract tells us that the Divine language is one. It is monologic. Human... | |
 | Edward Picot - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 354 pages
...only name that the men actually create stands for disunity: 'Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth...'. Not all cities in the Bible are sinful, but those that are not are generally idealized spiritual centres,... | |
 | Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine, Dino Bigongiari - Religion - 1996 - 388 pages
...earth: and they left off to build the city and the tower. Therefore the name of it is called Confusion; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and the Lord God scattered them thence on the face of all the earth." 7 This city, which was called Confusion,... | |
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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 the earth. 
