Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone
Babel that various world languages were birthed (vv. 7–9). Hundreds of years later, in the Torah Moses wrote of God dividing the nations at the tower: When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations,
When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
—Deuteronomy 32:8–9 Even the early church father Origen reflected on the early language of mankind when he wrote: All the people upon the earth are to be regarded as having used one divine language, and so long as they lived harmoniously together were preserved in the use of this divine language, and they remained from moving from the east so long as they were imbued with the sentiments of the “light,” and the “reflection” of the eternal light.4 The original language was a divine language , originating with Adam in the garden. According to Origen, there was one group that did not travel to the plains of Shinar with Nimrod, and they alone retained the pure language, spoken from the beginning of time:
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