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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.
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