Note 283 — PART THE SECOND. (continued 2)

As there is no mention of any such miraculous inundation in the [so-called] Mosaic writings, some have imagined this plague to have been either a pestilence, or the smallpox, or some other epidemical distemper. (B.) For the word ‘ṭoofán,’ which is used in this place, and is generally rendered a ‘deluge,’ may also signify any other universal destruction or mortality.—S.