| 1823 - 594 páginas
...consequently, involved in its penalty, but retained the original language. V. 6. " This they begin 1o do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." One might have supposed that, after so awful an evidence of God's abhorrence of sin, and power to punish... | |
| 1823 - 408 páginas
...rrtrf" 4ÖN1 which in the English bible is rendered thus ; " And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do." This rendering has no sense in it, for it implies, that, because they were one people, and had but... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1824 - 420 páginas
...and confound their language." This quaintness is indecent, and the reason given for it is worse, for, "now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do." This is representing the Almighty as jealous of their getting into heaven. The story is too ridiculous,... | |
| Benjamin Moore - 1824 - 396 páginas
...builders of Babel may vainly imagine, that they have erected a tower whose top reacheth unto heaven ; that nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do ; that they have made themselves a name in the earth, which will continue for ever. But God, who exalteth... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 páginas
...which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they all have one language ; and this they begin to do : and now...abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth." In the first verse in this account it is said, the whole earth was of one language ; and that as they... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 480 páginas
...which I know not how to ascribe to the building of a city and a tower for merely civil purposes. " This they begin to do ; and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do." ver. 6. They had taken the first step in a course of wickedness, which would naturally lead to still... | |
| John Owen - 1825 - 334 páginas
...requisite to the accomplishment of what they aimed at, was the oneness of their language; so God says, " They have all one language, and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained from them that they have imagined to do." In an ordinary way they will accomplish their wicked design. What course... | |
| John Owen - 1825 - 338 páginas
...requisite to the accomplishment of what they aimed at, was the oneness of their language; so God says, " They have all one language, and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained from them that they have imagined to do." In an ordinary way they will accomplish their wicked design. What course... | |
| Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 432 páginas
...below the tops of the mountains. It could not have been said of such a scheme, Tliis they have begun to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do : for it would have defeated itself. Neither does it appear to have been designed, as others have supposed,... | |
| Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 432 páginas
...that if God had not interposed to frustrate it, it would have succeeded : And this they have begun to do ; and now nothing •will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. The only object which appears to accord vt ith all these general characters, and with the whole account... | |
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