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Originally Posted by kisstheson
Having said that, dear brother Ohio, I think we need to see Jonah’s three days and three nights in the belly of the big fish as a type of Jesus Christ’s three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. To keep things clear, it would be best to say that Jesus was applying the type of Jonah’s three days and three nights in the belly of the big fish to His upcoming three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, rather than saying that Jesus was “allegorizing Jonah”. Jesus was taking a literal Old Testament event and pointing toward this event’s New Testament fulfillment. This is exactly what typology is all about. This was not a case of Jesus allegorizing. I hope you do not see this as “nit-picking”, dear brother in Christ. I do believe this is an important distinction to make.
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Great point, and great to see you again!
Terry posted a quote about this very subject, which is worthy of further examination. That is a very important distinction to make about Jonah.
What I find so helpful about Nigel's latest paper is that he has done the research to answer some of my many suspicions about LSM's methods of exposition. The recent episodes with lepers and replastering sounded alarms that something was seriously askew, but never did I realize that WL had reverted back to old practices from the dark ages. Allegorization run amok can best describe LSM's doctrinal basis for Whistler.