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SCOFIELD REFERENCE NOTES (Old Scofield 1917 Edition)
Book Introduction
The Book of Jonah
The historical character of the man Jonah is vouched for by Jesus Christ [Matthew 12:39-41](../../../kjv/matthew/12/39-41) as also that his preservation in the great fish was a "sign" or type of the Lord's own entombment and resurrection. Both are miraculous and both are equally credible. [2 Kings 14:25](../../../kjv/2-kings/14/25) records the fulfilment of a prophecy by Jonah. The man himself was a bigoted Jew, unwilling to testify to a Gentile city, and angry that God had spared it. Typically he foreshadows the nation of Israel out of its own land; a trouble to the Gentiles, yet witnessing to them; cast out by them, but miraculously preserved; in their future deepest distress calling upon Jehovah-Saviour, and finding deliverance, and then becoming missionaries to the Gentiles. [Zechariah 8:7-23](../../../kjv/zechariah/8/7-23).
He typifies Christ as the Sent One, raised from the dead, and carrying salvation to the Gentiles. The chapter divisions indicate the analysis of Jonah.

**Nineveh**
*(See Scofield "**")*

**fear**
*(See Scofield "**")*

**feared**
*(See Scofield "**")* .

**great fish**
No miracle of Scripture has called forth so much unbelief. The issue is not between the doubter and this ancient record, but between the doubter and the Lord Jesus Christ. [Matthew 12:39](../../../kjv/matthew/12/39); [Matthew 12:40](../../../kjv/matthew/12/40). Science, "falsely so called" [1 Timothy 6:20](../../../kjv/1-timothy/6/20) failing to take account of the fact that it deals only with the outward phenomena of a fallen race, and of an earth under a curse [Genesis 3:17-19](../../../kjv/genesis/3/17-19) is intolerant of miracles. To faith, and to true science, miracle is what might be expected of divine love, interposing God in a physically and morally disordered universe. [Romans 8:19-23](../../../kjv/romans/8/19-23).
**prepared**
Four prepared things. [Jonah 4:6](../../../kjv/jonah/4/6); [Jonah 4:7](../../../kjv/jonah/4/7); [Jonah 4:8](../../../kjv/jonah/4/8)

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