Jonah’s fish
Ronald Hanko defends the historical reality and miraculous nature of Jonah's account against liberal scholarship and secular skepticism, arguing for a straightforward biblical interpretation. The article grounds the Jonah narrative in God's sovereignty and grace while demonstrating its typological significance for understanding Christ's redemptive work.
Jonah 1:17 The story of Jonah's being swallowed by a "great fish" is often ridiculed by unbelievers. It even figured in the famous Scopes trial in 1925 in an exchange between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Darrow, counsel for the defense of John Scopes who was accused of teaching human evolution contrary to Tennessee law, asked Bryan: "But when you read that Jonah swallowed the whale -- or that the whale swallowed Jonah…how do you literally interpret that?" To which question Bryan,...
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