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Book Sixteen — the tower of Babel and the division of tongues

FOURTH DISPUTATION. With what design, to what end, those men willed to build a city of so great a mass and a tower of so great a height

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FOURTH DISPUTATION. With what design, to what end, those men willed to build a city of so great a mass and a tower of so great a height.1

QUARTA DISPUTATIO. Quo consilio, ad quem finem, homines illi tantae molis civitatem tantaeque altitudinis turrim exaedificare voluerint.

Translator’s notes

  1. Liber XVI, Disputation 4 (title): the design and purpose of building the city and tower. ↩

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Benito Pererius, S.J., “FOURTH DISPUTATION. With what design, to what end, those men willed to build a city of so great a mass and a tower of so great a height,” in Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume II, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/perera-genesis-2/188-fourth-disputation-with-what-design-to-what/.

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