...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...

...Make glad the 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...

...arisen, chiefly, if not 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...

...the end of seven 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...

...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...

...earth, and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered," because " the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." As to that, says The Science, the convulsions of nature, which have occured during ' the age of reptiles,'...

...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 broken...