“Ego autem in voce laudis immolabo tibi : quæcumque vovi, reddam pro salute Domino.”
“And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.”
“And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.”
“Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.”
“And Jehovah spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.”
Verse 10 Jonah's deliverance may be considered as an instance of God's power over all the creatures. As an instance of God's mercy to a poor penitent, who in distress prays to him: and as a type and figure of Christ's resurrection. Amidst all our varying experiences, and the changing scenes of life; we should look by faith, fixedly, upon our once suffering and dying, but now risen and ascended Redeemer. Let us confess our sins, consider Christ's resurrection as an earnest of our own, and thankfully receive every temporal and spiritual deliverance, as the pledge of our eternal redemption.
“And God said: Be light made. And light was made.”
“And god made a firmament, and divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament, and it was so.”
“God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.”
“And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.”
“And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:”