...clouds,) thither they return again." Eccles. i. 7. Thus the two parts of the sentence, " the fountains of the great deep were broken up — and the windows of heaven were opened," may, in fact, be considered as nothing more than two dînèrent modes of expressing the same idea;...

...branches.' The sum of the narrative of the Scriptures, is in the following terms: —' The fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven opened; and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights ; and the flood was forty days...

...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...

...days, on the 17th day of the month, the waters of the flood came upon the earth, for all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. For awhile, perhaps, they heard screams and shrieks of agony, and the sound of persons scaling the...

...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...

...Chambers of the open sky ! . Philadelphia, 1831. WGC THE DELUGE.— BY p. M. WETMORE. All the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. — Genesis. A doom to the fallen ! The earth where they trod, Shall be laden no longer with the scoffers...

...entirely, from the construction which has been put upon the words of the text, " All the fountains of the great deep [were] broken " up, and the windows of heaven were opened*." The total inability to reconcile the Scriptural account of this awful visitation of the Divine wrath...

...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...

...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...

...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...