...flood, and lived above two hundred and forty years together. — See chap. V. at the end. The fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.] It appears that an immense quantity of waters occupied the centre of the antediluvian earth ; and as...

...the surface, and the wuter in the centre ; hence the propriety of the expression, *• The fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened;" which mode of expression would' seem to imply that the water gushed out of their cavities;. and an...

...Gen. vii. 2, 3. 14-16. * On the seventeenth day of the second month, in Noah's six hundredth year, ' all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows or floodgates of heaven were opened.' Gen. vii. 11. 4 Gen. vii. 12, 17. they covered the high hills....

...added that contained in the bowels of the earth, as at the time of the deluge, when " the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven opened," (see vii. 11.) we need not suffer ourselves to be perplexed by the assertions of those who...

...means by which this universal destruction is stated to have been effected. Three only are mentioned. All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.3 1. All the fountains of the great deep were...

...earth, and it was corrupt, for aU flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth." — "AH the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." "And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." — "And the waters prevailed exceedingly...

...danger is come. The time to enter the ark, is while the deluge is still distant. When ' ' the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened" — " the Lord had shut the door" of the 3 Matt. viii. 4. ark which carried Noah and his family. And...

...observations of Martens, Barentz, and other navigators of the north. It is farther said in Genesis, that, " all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. " The expression, the fountains of the great deep, can, in my opinion, be applied only to an effusion...

...Martens, Barents, and other navigators of the north. It is farther said, in the book of Genesis, ' all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.' The expression, the fountains of the great deep, can, in my opinion, be applied only to an effusion...

...this asylum, the Lord himself shut them in. As soon as they were enclosed in the ark, the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and the ark floated upon the surface of this shoreless sea. We arc now naturally led to contemplate this...