gathered] Or, flow together; the Hebrew word Jikkav, derived from Kavah, importing expectation, notes a fit place for their reception, as if it were so ready for them, as to expect their coming thither, and (according to its affinitie with the conjugate word Kau, which signifieth a line) it noteth the naturall disposition of the waters to runne to it (as by a streight line) the next way: See Psalms 33:7. one place] Their place may be called one in respect of their principall gathering together in the Sea, which is as a maine body (in comparison whereof other waters are but as armes or limbes) whence they run, and whither they have their recourse againe, Ecclesiastes 1:7. as God directeth their motion, and setteth their bounds, Job 38:8. 10, 11. Psalms 104:8-10. Proverbs 8:29. Jeremiah 5:22. dry land appeare] For before it was for the most part covered with waters: is is like the earth at this time was, as in 2 Peter 3:5. standing out of the water, and in the water: part out of it, and the greatest part under it, yet some part out of it, and above it; for there was a distance and division betwixt the upper waters in the clouds, and those below, which could not be at this time, if the whole earth were wholly covered; for there are some hils (as some say) higher then some rainy clouds, unlesse we say that hils had not their eminent existence untill the earth was wholly uncovered, but so the saying of Peter is not so fairly cleared. See Ann. on 100: 7. 5: 20.