1317. This mumbling uproar, the noise of their confused grumblings, were of three kinds. One was all around the head, just a mixture of murmurings, and this at some distance round about. I was told this was nothing but the difference of thoughts and of the clashing grumbles breaking out from them, and thus the confusion of the one not knowing what the other thought and knew, like the sound of a large crowd all talking at the same time and about different things, and thus like that of water making somewhat the same sound, to which it is also likened in the Word, I believe [see Luke 21:25, Rev. 14:2].