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
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 — Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume II Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume II
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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
Liber XVI, Disputation 4 (title): the design and purpose of building the city and tower. ↩
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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