...drinking, marrying and given in marriage, until the flood came and deftroyed them all. For on the felf-fame day were all the fountains of the great deep broken...and' the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The waters of the flood continued gradually to increafe for five months, till they reached...

...keav'afet open on the earth Jball four Broke up.] Gen. vii. n. " The fame day were all the fountains: •f the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.' ' The winiavs of heaven are tranilated the cataracts, in the Syriack and Arabick verfions, and in the...

...,,. ,. ',.., ;GENE 8 IS Vli. II. In the fecond Month, the feventeenth Day of the :Monthit the fame Day -were all the Fountains of the great Deep broken up ; and the Windows of $eaven -were opened. And the Rain 'was upon the Earth forty Days and forty Nights. THE hiftbry of Mofes,...

....hundredth year of Noah's lire, in ths iecond month, the feven-' teenth day. of the month, the fame 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. 13 In the felf-fame day entered Ncah,...

...word Fload, he says, " The vvateremployed for this purpose Moses derives from two sources, namely, the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven opened.'' This writer should have diligently inquired, what Moses meant by the windows of heaven, or...

...plain. He f;i)s, " All the fountains of the great deep were broken up ; and the windows and flood-gates of heaven were opened : and the rain was upon the earth, forty days and forty nights." Thefe were the two grand fources of the deluge. Yet, one of thcfe fources has been fuppolcd...

...because he distinguishes months and years in the history of the deluge, and of the life of Noah : as, " in the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month," &c. It cannot be imagined, that in the same verse and sentence, these two terms of year and month should...

...forth their torrents, they must wait till Noah had entered the ark and God had. shut him in, " and on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep...broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." When the tempest of fire was prepared to destroy the doomed and guilty cities of the plain, and the...

...commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,...

...began to descend in such torrents, as filainly indicated the truth of the di1 1 vine thrtatenings. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month of their years, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day, that very day, so worthy to be remembered,...