...grandeur to his 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...

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

...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...

...universal destruction is stated to have been effected. Three only are mentioned. Au Ifte 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.* 1. Jill the fountains of the great deep...

...scene in which the powers of description so utterly fail — unless it be the seventh day itself, when all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Reader, is this a fictitious scene we are bringing to mind; or was it so indeed, as the earth itself...

...commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 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: and the waters increased and bare up the...

...the different kinds of animals were safely lodged in the ark, the waters began to overflow the earth. "All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." Vast floods of water came from the innermost parts of the earth, breaking through, and bursting up,...

...extent of ante-Babylonian alluvium contains whatever matters the great cataclysm, which occurred when " all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened," deposited upon the surface of the earth. Mr. Beke (op. cit.) has, from a novel interpretation of the...

...we perceive in the materials of the earth are the result of a single general deluge, during which, " all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened "; " and the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days "; for though we were to allow...

...when he entered the ark with all his family ; and as soon as they were safely shut in, the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. . The rain poured down in torrents for forty days and forty nights, and the flood was so great that...