...seen, although it cannot be considered so silent and quiet a rise of waters, as many have maintained, when the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the high hills were covered ; yet who can find in the deluge of a year's continuance the deposition of...

...Scripture to describe both these events. In the seventh chapter of Genesis we read that " The fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened : " and when. Isaiah is describing the second great and universal judgment, which shall...

...beast, bird, and creeping thing, and redolent of the same, as the gang-plank was drawn in, the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Lot, in his doomed little city, through the dim streets of which those radiant strangers...

...of water and volcanic agency which is shadowed forth to our minds by the expression 'the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened'. The upheaval of the island of Santa Maria has been quoted by geologists, from my statement;...

...the Flood. The rain began to patter, then burst out in all the fury of an enraged God: the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. Soon the fields were covered, then the hills, then the mountaintops. I can imagine the...

..."windows of heaven" may be taken from the account of the Flood in Genesis 7:11, ". . . the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." The title of the hymn (literally, "that which is nearest is best") is picked up in line...

...of water and volcanic agency which is shadowed forth to our minds by the expression 'the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.' The upheaval of the island of Santa Maria has been quoted by geologists, from my statement;...

...priestly account of the Deluge, where we read that in the 600th year of Noah's life all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven opened. Assyr. edu, however, is never used of underground water. In all the passages I know of, it refers to...

...of water and volcanic agency which is shadowed forth to our minds by the expression 'the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.' 35 But many of his other arguments were palpably absurd. These passages were, however,...

...these narratives. The fountain and windows of the set may recall the biblical passage: "the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened" (Genesis 7:11). There is a certain potential for disaster "written into" these objects....