The prevalence of the waters. The forty days are now completed. At the end of this period, the ark had been afloat for a long time. It was drifted …

The waters increased ... — The swelling of the flood is described with great power in these verses. Every stage and detail relates to the …

If Moses had meant to describe a partial deluge upon only a small part of the earth, he used very misleading language; but if he meant to teach tha…

And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth
Yet more and more, so that the people without the ark were obliged…

The flood was increasing for forty days. The waters rose so high that the tops of the highest mountains were overflowed by more than twenty feet. T…