3627 - Jonah's Case by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 19, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 50.

3627 — Jonah's Case

By Editor

Please explain Jonah 2:5.

In the song of triumph which he sang after he was delivered from the sea-monster, Jonah 2:5 reads, "The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; the deep was round about me; the weeds were wrapped about my head." He is simply, in a poetical phraseology, telling of his experience in the stomach of the great fish. That is all. "Compassed about even to the soul" means even to the life. Of course he would have died there if it had not been for God's providential care over him. He would have drowned, or smothered, in the stomach of the fish, as truly as he would in the waters themselves, if it had not been for God's goodness in keeping him. We do not know what other point our correspondent may have in mind. He will have to make it plainer, if we do not touch upon it.