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| Babel, Valckenborch 1595 |
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And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.” “H
e was a mighty hunter before [against] the LORD,” a hunter of the postdiluvian monsters of that world as well as a hunter of men, “
wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD”
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The beginning of his kingdom was Babel” in land of Shinar. There he compelled them to build a city and a tower that reached to the heavens to make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” But God had said: “
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,” NOT build cities and towers.
“And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower.... And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language... and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.... let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel....” (Genesis 11:5-9)
Today, another son of Cush brandishing the unmitigated arrogance of Nimrod is driven by a frenzied lust for the “
unilateral authority” (Trade Promotion Authority) to enslave the people of the earth, and compel them to build again the tower of Babel!
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