...,,. ,. ',.., ;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,...

...the fame fignification, when it occurs afterwards in the Mofaical account of the flood. THUS again, " and the flood was forty days upon the earth* " and the waters increafed and bare up the ark, and it. was lift, "up above the earth" WHEN the earth is thus introduced...

....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...

...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,...

...the Lord clofed* the door of the ark in the furface thereof. I. And his word had mercy upon him. 17O. And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increafed, and lifted up the ark, and it was borne from off the earth. PI And the flood was forty days...

...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,...

...seventh day after the autumnal equinox, Noah and his family entered into the ark. " The same day " were the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the " windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the " earth forty days and forty nights." After forty days the ark floated. The waters...