. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . s inthe terse verdict,The whole of thisdiscussion aboutthe fish of Jonahis vain and use-less. The spot where he was cast ashore isequally uncertain, though the Moslems pointouttheidenticalbeach, with great confidence,at Porphyreon, between Sidon and Beirut,where a building is erected which passes forhis tomb. There has also been some discussion as tothe nature of the gourd which the Bible tellsus God prepared for the
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . s inthe terse verdict,The whole of thisdiscussion aboutthe fish of Jonahis vain and use-less. The spot where he was cast ashore isequally uncertain, though the Moslems pointouttheidenticalbeach, with great confidence,at Porphyreon, between Sidon and Beirut,where a building is erected which passes forhis tomb. There has also been some discussion as tothe nature of the gourd which the Bible tellsus God prepared for the protection of Jonahfrom the sun. The implication of the historrian is that it grew up in a day and wither-ed on the morrow,1 though this is not quiteclear; for the description in chap, iv., 10, is,literally, which was the son of a night, andperished the son of a night, and may be sim- etrable to the suns hottest rays; flourishesbest in the hottest part of summer; andwhen injured or cut withers away withequal rapidity. The reality of Jonahs his-tory receives a curious confirmation fromthe traditions of other nations, in which thestory is preserved in a modified form. It is.
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