Fish. Hebrew dag: afterwards daga occurs, ver. 2; (Haydock) on which Leusden observes, the Jews infer that Jonas was first swallowed up by male and then by a female fish, which being full of young he was much straitened, and prayed from the belly of that ( hadaga) female fish! He alludes to Rabbi Ja... [ Continue Reading ]
_Prayed. He entertained these sentiments. (Sanct. xiv.) --- He afterwards wrote them down. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_I cried. These five verses (Haydock) express his thoughts while he was in the sea, (St. Jerome; Calmet) or in the fish. (Haydock) --- He doubtless prayed before, when he was cast into the sea, and also in the whale's belly, having then greater confidence that he should arrive safely on dry land, (v... [ Continue Reading ]
_Eyes, in a sort of despair, like the psalmist, xxx. 23. Yet he presently resumes fresh confidence in God, notwithstanding the greatness of his offences. --- Temple. He went to Jerusalem, like other good Israelites._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Soul, so that I was in danger of being suffocated, Psalms lxviii. 2. (Calmet) --- Sea. Hebrew, "weeds entangled," &c. (Haydock) --- The Mediterranean has a great deal of sea weed. He speaks of the time before he was swallowed up by the fish._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lowest. Hebrew and Septuagint, "clefts." --- Bars, or prisons, in the abyss, (Calmet) farthest from the heights. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Me, at the last gasp, (Calmet) and oppressed with grief. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mercy. He alludes to the sailors. (Theodoret) --- Hebrew also, "let them forsake their worship," (Drusius, Leviticus xx. 17.) or they are guilty of impiety. They neglect their vows, ver. 10., and chap. i. 16. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Spoke to the fish. God's speaking to the fish was nothing else but his will, which all things obey. (Challoner) (Worthington) --- Land. Josephus says near the Euxine Sea. But thus it must have travelled 800 leagues. Others fix upon different places, without any proof. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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