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Jonah 2

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1 And Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly;

2 and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice.

3 For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.

4 And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.

5 The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.

6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the earth [closed] upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple.

8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.

10 And Jehovah commanded the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land].

   

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Flood

  

The flood was the end of the most ancient church, and the beginning of the ancient church. The flood which the serpent cast out of his mouth, as in Revelation 12:15, signifies reasonings in abundance grounded in fallacies and appearances. The flood, as in Genesis 7, not only signifies the temptations which the man of the church called Noah must undergo, before he could be regenerated, but likewise the desolation of people who could not be regenerated; both temptations and desolations are in the Word compared to floods, or inundations of waters. A flood signifies truths in abundance. “No more to destroy the earth”, signifies that such a deadly and suffocating persuasion as in the former church should exist no more.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 564)