Bible Encyclopedia: Water: Drops from the Clouds in Rain

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On the Words, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of all Things visible ...
... vapour when it returns to the state of water." p. 89: "Clouds produce rain ... the
precipitation is collected in larger portions, and becomes drops, these descend ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture ix on the words.htm

The Choice of Gideon was a Figure of Our Lord's Incarnation, The
... of prophecy, saying: "I will command My clouds that they ... like rain upon a fleece,
and like drops that drop ... this rain upon the whole earth, to water the world ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/the choice of gideon was.htm

Egypt and Greece.
... The falling of drops of water out of clouds in the sky was an occurrence so strange,
so unaccountable, that the whole population regarded it with ...
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St. Ambrose Returns to the Story of the Widow of Sarepta...
... shall come down like rain upon a fleece, and like the drops that water the earth ...
to grow dry and parched in their own unbelief, when the clouds of prophecy ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter iii st ambrose returns.htm

On the Firmament.
... and light clouds; then mingling again, it forms drops which fall, dragged down by
their own weight; and this is the origin of rain. When water beaten by the ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/homily iii on the firmament.htm

The Church of Christ
... pebble is perceptible over the entire bosom of the water. ... It does not say, "I will
send them drops," but "I ... Is it a season of great heaviness and black clouds? ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the church of christ.htm

Striking Similes
... I saw his senses swim dizzy as clouds. I wander'd lonely as a cloud. ... It cuts like
knives, this air so chill. It drops away like water from a smooth statue. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section viii striking similes.htm

The Waterer Watered
... empty themselves upon the earth, and yet the clouds cease not ... and the little leaves
sucked up their drops, till the ... will come to all of us when we want water. ...
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Elijah's Appeal to the Undecided
... Like empty clouds they are driven hither and thither by the wind; like ... my grandfather
took little children in their arms, and put drops of water on their ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/elijahs appeal to the undecided.htm

Blessed are they that Mourn
... It must come as water out of a spring, not as fire ... for sin must be like the myrrh
which drops from the ... When the clouds of sorrow have overcast the soul, some ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/6 blessed are they that.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Deuteronomy 11:11
But the land, where you go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water of the rain of heaven:
Torrey's Topical Textbook

2 Samuel 21:10
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped on them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Torrey's Topical Textbook