Genesis 11:9

Origen

• Origen, Against Celsus V.29Book V

  “Therefore is the name of it called Confusion; 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.”” — editor's note: Cf. Gen. xi. 5–9.

  Read the whole comment

Eusebius of Caesarea

• Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History I.2Book I

  “…giants celebrated by all; now planning to fortify earth against heaven, and in the madness of ungoverned pride to prepare an attack upon the very God of all.” — editor's note: The reference here seems to be to the building of the tower of Babel (Gen. xi. 1–9), although Valesius thinks otherwise. The fact that Eusebius refers to the…

  Read the whole comment
• Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History II.18Book II

  “…titles corresponding to the contents of each; for instance, Concerning the things which the Sober Mind desires and execrates,On the Confusion of Tongues,On Flight and Discovery,On Assembly for the sake of Instruction,On the question, ‘Who is heir to things divine?’ or On the division of things into equal and…” — editor's note: περὶ συγκύσεως τῶν διαλέκτων. Upon Gen. xi. 1–9. Still extant, and given by Mangey, I. 404–435 (Schürer, p. 844).

  Read the whole comment

Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 55

  “There is a certain city turbulent: the same it was that was building a tower, the same was confounded and called Babylon, the same through innumerable nations dispersed: thence is gathered the Church into the desert of a good conscience.” — editor's note: Gen. xi. 9.

  Read the whole comment
• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVI.4Book XVI

  “Therefore the name of it is called Confusion; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and the Lord God scattered them thence on the face of all the earth.”” — editor's note: Gen. xi. 1–9.

  Read the whole comment
• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 6

  ““God saw their pride, and frustrated their purpose by causing that they should not understand one another’s speech, and thus tongues became diverse through pride.”” — editor's note: Gen. xi. 1–9.

  Read the whole comment

Gregory of Nyssa

• Gregory of Nyssa, Funeral Oration on Meletius

  “For when I see the confusion of heresy, this confusion is Babylon.” — editor's note: Gen. xi. 9.

  Read the whole comment

Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 46

  “The patriarch—the first to receive a promise of Christ—is here told to leave the Chaldees, to leave the city of confusion and its rehobothor broad places; to leave also the plain of Shinar, where the tower of pride had been raised to heaven.” — editor's note: I.e. Babel—Gen. xi. 9.

  Read the whole comment

• Deuteronomy 32:8

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.29.

• Deuteronomy 32:9

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.29.

• Tobit 12:7

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.29.

• Job 15:13

  Cited together in The City of God XVI.4.

• Psalm 95:6

  Cited together in The City of God XVI.4.

• Wisdom 1:4

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.29.

• Wisdom 10:5

  Cited together in Against Celsus V.29.