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Strolia-Davis Christopher Contr MSG/MAT scripsit: > Claude L Bullard wrote: > >As I recall and that was when I was younger, it was > >the tower and the king that were smoten, but the > >people were scattered babbling. So when XML comes > >to full dominance, we can likely expect the Internet > >to crash once and for all. > > Actually, they were only smote down because they > tried to compare the tower to God. The text says otherwise: the Tower was destroyed because of God's concern that unified mankind might be able to unite imagination and action: "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." (Gen. 11:6) Here's the whole text in the KJV: 011:001 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 011:002 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 011:003 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 011:004 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 011:005 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 011:006 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 011:007 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 011:008 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 011:009 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. -- "Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child John Cowan could understand this report. Run out jcowan@r... and find me a four-year-old child. I http://www.ccil.org/~cowan can't make head or tail out of it." http://www.reutershealth.com --Rufus T. Firefly on government reports
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