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rubim, under the guidance, and according to the will of 

 Jehovah of Hosts, are in action, and fulfil his purpose, 

 and the consequence is that The waters under the heaven 

 are gathered together into one place and the dry land 

 appears* Similar steps were taken at the deluge. For 

 God remembered Noah and every living thing t and all the 

 cattle that were with him in the ark : and God made a wind 

 to pass over the earthy and the waters assuaged.* It is not 

 here said, as on the occasion just alluded to, that the 

 Holy Spirit brooded over the water, but literally that God 

 passed (a) wind (or spirit) over the earth. The action, 

 though not the same, was analogous, wind under the 

 direction of God was employed to do, in part, what the 

 incubation of the Holy Spirit had before effected, to begin 

 that action by which the globe and its atmosphere would 

 be again placed in statu quo, the water again divided, so 

 that one part should return to the great abyss, its destined 

 abode; and the other be suspended in the atmosphere; 

 and, by the same means, the dislocated crust of the earth 

 be re-formed ; the matter suspended in the water or float- 

 ing on it deposited, the detritus of the old one being 

 mixed, and often, as it were, intercalated with vegetable 

 and animal substances and remains. This wind from God 

 having passed over the earth, the waters assuaged ; that 

 is, their rage and violence ceased ; the fountains of the 

 abyss and the windows of heaven being stopped ; the one 

 no longer poured forth its waters upon the earth ; and the 

 other no longer descended to occupy their place ; and the 

 rain had ceased to fall. When the above three causes of 

 the deluge ceased their action, and had given place to the 

 wind from God, the waters of course began to subside. 



1 Genes, i. 9. 2 Ibid. viii. 1. 



