...the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were opened: And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In...

...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; and it will...

...tail condensed into horrible rains. This is the explanation of the passage in Scripture that says: "All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened." This is clearly a series of physical events, obeying the Newtonian...

...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 people racing...

..."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 35 (p. 177): starlings,...

...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; and it will...

...Gen. 7, 11 in the 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...

...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. Also in act...

...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, written early...

...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; and it will...