...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...

...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...

...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...

...and of fowls, by sevens; to keep seed alive upon the earth. And it came to pass, that 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 Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth,...

...all living species intended to people the new earth, from man to the minutest insect, " the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened,"—by some amazing convulsion, in which the agency of natural causes was probably employed,...

...flood, of tho scenes of consternation and terror which must have been displayed over all the earth, when the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the cataracts of heaven opened, and of the dreadful concussion of the elements of nature, when the solid...

...flood, of the scenes of consternation and terror which must have been displayed over all the earth, when the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the cataracts of heaven opened, and of the dreadful concussion of the elements of nature, when the solid...

...origin to the first earth. Vast causes were put in action, and vast effects produced, the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, phrases which plainly imply the inroad of the sea upon the land, and the descent of heavy rains. By...

...sublime effusions, by images drawn from the fearful catastrophe of the' deluge, when " all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened;" and from the magnificent descent upon Sinai, when " the mount was altogether on a smoke, because Jehovah...

...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 rvere opened, and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights' 1. All the fountains of...