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   Hello Daryl Stout!   
      
   ** On Wednesday 17.02.21 - 11:18, Daryl Stout wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    DS>>  On this day...   
    DS>>     Jonah took   
    DS>>     No brush   
    DS>>     To mop his face   
    DS>>     Where Jonah went   
    DS>>     He needed space   
      
    AA>> HUH? The only Jonah I know is the one in the story of Jonah and   
    AA>> the great fish. What does the one above mean?   
      
    DS>   It's the same one. He basically was "running from God",   
    DS>   as he hated the people who lived in Ninevah. God wanted   
    DS>   him to warn them that judgment was imminent, unless   
    DS>   repentance was forthcoming. Jonah basically wanted the   
    DS>   Ninevites wiped out, as they were a threat to Israel and   
    DS>   the Jews.   
      
   I am familiar with the story. Thanks.  So, the reference to     
   "needed space" refers to the cramped quarters of the fish's     
   stomach? (BTW.. the original hebrew does not use the word     
   whale.)   
      
    DS>   Unfortunately, for Ninevah, the repentance was apparently   
    DS>   short lived, as a short time later, they were back to   
    DS>   their iniquity...and this time, God did destroy them.   
      
   I either forgot or didn't know about that part.   
      
   The VeggieTales movie about Jonah is hilarious. They represented     
   the iniquity as the people going around slapping other people in     
   the face with fishes.   
      
    DS>   Well, I had thoughts about eating lunch until I typed   
    DS>   this reply. :P   
      
   Hope your luch was worth the wait.   
      
   I just learned that Tolkien wrote a commentary on the Jonah     
   story.   
      
   BTW.. WRT to your attempt to explain the logics of stomach acid     
   in the fish, check out the book Jonah by (forgot the the author,     
   but will look it up.. I have some of the author's books in my     
   shop).  It explores what it might have been like in the belly of     
   the great beast.  As a sceptic, I was impressed with the     
   imagining.   
      
   Lastly, there are other "changes" in the hebrew text that     
   suggest that Jonah was in TWO great fishes: the first one (male)     
   and large stomach and therefore refused to pray, and the second     
   one (female) with much smaller stomach and therefore he began to     
   pray.   
      
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