...1[ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, h : and they rested on the house with timber of cedar....11 Tf And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, s 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the self-same day entered Noah,...

...inundation?" The terms are figurative, but surely some of them convey the idea of violent irruptions. " The same day were all the fountains of the great deep...broken, up, and the windows of heaven were opened" (Genesis vii. 11.) I cannot, moreover, understand how such a catastrophe could possibly be " tranquil,"...

...the Bible. Is it still urged that the passage implies solidity and perforation, where it is said, " The same day were all the fountains of the great deep...broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened?" When there is a severe and long continued drought, what is more common than for men of literature and...

..." In the sii hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth"day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep...and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." — (Gen. vii. 11 and 12.) Such is the account given to us in holy Scripture of the great...

...ark ; and the waters of the Hood came upon the earth. Then 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 bore up the ark ; so that it went upon the face of the waters....

...anon, "In the six hundredth year of Noahs life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep...up, and the windows of heaven were opened." "And the waters prevailed upon the earth, and bore up the ark; and.it was lift up above the earth ; and the...

...clearly spoken inwardly to me, in these words, ''In the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep...broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." — Gen. vii. 11. I hesitated no longer, but wrote according to the direction I had been graciously...

...follows :— " In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the 2nd month, the 1 7th day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep...and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased and hare up the ark,...

...moved by divine impulse, found shelter in the ark, and were preserved alive upon the earth. Then " were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,...the rain ..' was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." " And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon...

..." In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep...broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." — Gen. vii. 11. The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep, as distinguished from the opening...