 | David Aitchison - Christian union - 1839 - 156 pages
...which best can endure the storms of a tempestuous ocean. When the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was poured upon the earth, no vessel could weather the storm, save that which Noah had built, and the everlasting... | |
 | Thomas Richard Brown - Hebrew language - 1840 - 268 pages
...number, was intended t > point out, originally, the passage mentioned in Gen : c. 7. v. 11. "The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." Verso 3.— 1QN (the mother of swiftness ; or to mete out much flight, scil : of words.) to speak.... | |
 | George Moir Bussey - 1840 - 282 pages
...inmates of the ark. The ark itself rested upon the mountain whereon it had been built. In the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. The sea-tide flowed continuously without ebb for a whole day, and the rain ceased not. The rivers overflowed... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1840 - 454 pages
...six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the^econd month, in the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows (or Jlood-gates, Margin) of heaven were opened." The word windows here triads is the same which occurs... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...of liberty is soon followed by the loss of virtue and religion. — (N.) 824. Gen. vii. " The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." Milton here follows the Syriao and Arabic, the Septuagint and vulgar Latin versions, in which the windows... | |
 | 1841 - 430 pages
...&c. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the flood-gates (or cataracts) of heaven were opened: and verse 18, And the water prevailed exceedingly... | |
 | Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx - Bible - 1842 - 518 pages
...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." Noah enters the ark, and gathers into it all living things according to JEHOVAH. Chap. vii. 7. " And... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 772 pages
...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. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. LECTURE 15. The disobedience of the... | |
 | William Lister (F.G.S.) - 1843 - 36 pages
...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,"... | |
 | James Smith - Bible - 1843 - 728 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
