...the awful event which it relates, than satisfactory to a philosophical inquirer: " The " fountains of the great deep were broken " up, and the windows of heaven were " opened." From a description of this nature it can only be collected (what the historian is evidently most anxious...

...of your nakedness shall not appear." Thus Noah's ark was a shadow of Christ; for when the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and every living creature died in the storm and flood, a sanctuary was prepared for such as believed,...

...the' ground, botli man and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the air: the fountains of the" great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered." Sacred History gives us the...

...for it ; such was the awful destruction which involved the ancient world, when " all the fountains of the great " deep were broken up, and the windows of " heaven were opened, and all flesh died that " moved upon the earth, and Noah only re" mained alive, and they that were...

...their comments on the text of Moses, who is made to say in the English version, that "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." Gen. vii. 11, 12. If such a sheet of...

...its bed, and overflowing the land, and by its raining forty days and forty nights. " The fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." In forty days the waters were deep enough to bear up the ark, (V. 17, 18,) and they increased till...

...were baptized into his death? In like manner, — after alluding to the time when " all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened;" when overwhelming torrents from above were descending, and all the waters of the flood were Rolling...

...ever since the deluge, a period of more than 4000 years! Perhaps this very whale, when " the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of Heaven opened," roving through the flood, may have lashed with his huge tail the sides of the ai k, and even...

...those who are not convinced of the fact. Moses says no more, as to the former, than that the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven opened ; and, as to the latter, he only telb us, that the fountains of the great deep and the windows...

...terrific form which it assumed as the commissioned agent of general devastation, when the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven being opened, it descended in overwhelming torrents ; but falling with all that gentleness that was...