Biblical Reading and Reflections: August 30th (Jonah 1 & Matthew 2)
Alastair's Adversaria
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The Sign of the Prophet Jonah
The story of jonah was already a sign, but jesus uses it as a sign of his own mission. The unfaithful prophetic nation that is bringing this storm upon the region is about to be thrown into the sea of the gentiles where it will be swallowed up by the big fish of babylon. Yet this big fish has been appointed by the lord precisely in order to rescue the prophet and to bring it back ad set it on its mission once more. Jona's sign is a symbol of exile and return, but also a symbol of death and resurrection. In the life of the people of god, this would take the form of exile and then being disgorged
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