The Works of Philo Judaeus, Vol. II (Yonge)

among them all ; and they have begun to do this thing, and now there will not fail unto them anything of all the things which they desire to do. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that each may not understand the voice A his neighbour. And the Lord scattered them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they desisted from building the city, and the tower. On this account, the name of it was called Confusion, because there the Lord confused the languages Df all the earth, and from thence the Lord scattered them over the face of all the earth."* II. Those who are discontented at the constitution under which their fathers have lived, being always eager to blame and to accuse the laws, being impious men, use these and similar instances as foundations for their impiety, saying, "Are ye even » Genesis xL 1. VOL. IX. D 2 PHILO JUDJEC7S.