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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:5

Verse 5 5.And the Lord came down. The remaining part of the history now follows, in which Moses teaches us with what ease the Lord could overturn their insane attempts, and scatter abroad all their preparations. There is no doubt that they strenuously set about what they had presumptuously devised. But Moses first intimates that God, for a little while, seemed to take no notice of them, (328) in order that suddenly breaking off their work at its commencement, by the confusion of their tongues,... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:6

Verse 6 6.Behold, the people is one. Some thus expound the words, that God complains of a wickedness in men so refractory, that he excites himself by righteous grief to execute vengeance; not that he is swayed by any passions, (329) but to teach us that he is not negligent of human affairs, and that, as he watches for the salvation of the faithful, so he is intent on observing the wickedness of the ungodly; as it is said in Psalms 34:16, “The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:7

Verse 7 7.Go to, let us go down. We have said that Moses has represented the case to us by the figure hypotyposis, (330) that the judgments of God may be the more clearly illustrated. For which reason, he now introduces God as the speaker, who declares that the work which they supposed could not be retarded, shall, without any difficulty, be destroyed. The meaning of the words is of this kind, ‘I will not use many instruments, I will only blow upon them, and they, through the confusion of... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:8

Verse 8 8.So the Lord scattered them abroad. Men had already been spread abroad; and this ought not to be regarded as a punishment, seeing it rather flowed from the benediction and grace of God. But those whom the Lord had before distributed with honor in various abodes, he now ignominiously scatters, driving them hither and thither like the members of a lacerated body. This, therefore, was not a simple dispersion for the replenishing of the earth, that it might every where have cultivators and... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:9

Verse 9 9.Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Behold what they gained by their foolish ambition to acquire a name! They hoped that an everlasting memorial of their origin would be engraven on the tower; God not only frustrates their vain expectation, but brands them with eternal disgrace, to render them execrable to all posterity, on account of the great mischief indicted on the human race, through their fault. They gain, indeed, a name, but not each as they would have chosen: thus does... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:1-9

Order brought forth. We are now to trace the rise of the kingdom of God among the nations. Already in the case of Nimrod, the mighty hunter before the Lord, that is, by permission of Divine providence, the antagonism between the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world has been symbolized. Now we find the concentration of the world's rebellion and ungodliness in the false city, type of the worldly power throughout the Scriptures. It is on the plain of Shinar to which the early... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:5

And the Lord came down . Not in visible form, as in Exodus 19:20 ; Exodus 34:5 (Onkelos), but " effectu ostendens se propin quiorem quem absentem esse judicabant " (Poole), an anthropomorphism (cf. Genesis 18:21 ; Psalms 144:5 ). " It is measure for measure ( par pari ). Let us build up, say they, and scale the heavens. Let us go down, says God, and defeat their impious thought" (Rabbi Schelomo, quoted by T . Lewis). To see (with a view to judicial action) the city and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:5

The cities of men and the city of God ( Genesis 11:5 ; Hebrews 11:16 ). I. THEIR BUILDERS . Of the first, men—mostly wicked men; of the second, the Architect of the universe. II. THEIR ORIGIN . Of the first (Enoch, Genesis 4:17 ; and Babel, Genesis 11:5 ), hostility to God; of the second, love to man. III. THEIR DESIGN . Of the first, to be a bond of union among sinners; of the second, to be a residence for God's children. IV. THEIR APPEARANCE . Of the first,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:6

And the Lord said —within himself, and to himself ( vide Genesis 11:8 ); expressive of the formation of a Divine resolution (cf. Genesis 6:7 )— Behold, the people — עַס , from root signifying to bind together, expresses the idea of association; גּוֹי , from a root signifying to swell (Lange), to flow together (Gesenius), to gather together (Furst), conveys the notion of a confluxus hominum . T . Lewis connects it with the sense of interiority, or exclusion, which is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:6

Vain imaginings 1. Commonly spring from misused blessings. A united people, with a common language, and enjoying a measure of 'success in their buildings, the Babelites became vain in their imaginings. So do wicked men generally misinterpret the Divine beneficence and leniency which suffers them to proceed a certain length with their wickedness (cf. Romans 1:21 ; 2 Timothy 3:9 ). 2. Are never unobserved by him against whom they are directed ( Deuteronomy 31:21 ; 1 Chronicles... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 11:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:1-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 11:6

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