_And Jehovah spake to the fish, and it threw up Jonah on the dry land._
[1524] For the Babylonian myths see Sayce’s Hibbert Lectures; George Smith’s _Assyrian Discoveries_; and Gunkel, _Schöpfung u. Chaos_.
[1525] Passages in which this class of myths are taken in a physical sense are Job iii. 8, vii. 12, xxvi. 12, 13, etc., etc.; and passages in which it is applied politically are Isa. xxvii. 1, li. 9; Jer. li. 34, 44; Psalm lxxiv., etc. See Gunkel, _Schöpfung u. Chaos_.
[1526] Chap. xvii. 12-14.
[1527] Jer. li. 34.
[1528] Heb. margin, LXX. and Syr.; Heb. text _us_.
[1529] Jer. li. 44, 45.
[1530] Cheyne, _Theol. Rev._, XIV. See above, p. 503.
[1531] See above, p. 511, on the Psalm of Jonah.
[1532] Above, p. 525, n. 1525.
[1533] It is very interesting to notice how many commentators (_e.g._ Pusey, and the English edition of Lange) who take the story in its individual meaning, and therefore as miraculous, immediately try to minimise the miracle by quoting stories of great fishes who have swallowed men, and even men in armour, whole, and in one case at least have vomited them up alive!
[1534] See above, pp. 511 f.
[1535] See above, p. 511, nn. 1500, 1501.
[1536] The grammar, which usually expresses result, more literally runs, _And Thou didst cast me_; but after the preceding verse it must be taken not as expressing consequence but cause.
[1537] Read אֵיךְ for אַךְ, and with the LXX. take the sentence interrogatively.