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prepared = appointed, or assigned. From Hebrew. mdndh, to number. Hence, to appoint, as in Job_7:3. Dan_1:5; Dan_1:10-11; and Chaldee. mynah (Dan_5:25, Dan_5:26). Compare Jon_4:6-8. Never means to create.
great fish. Large enough to swallow him. in Mat_12:40, Greek. kilos - any large marine monster; whence Cetacece -the mammalian order of fish. No need for any name. Compare Mat_12:20; Mat_16:4. Luk_11:30.
swallow up . . . belly. Not therefore kept alive in the fish ' s mouth, as some imagine. When thus swallowed up, Jonah must have died, and thus became a type of Christ. The "as" and "so" in Mat_12:40 require Jonah's death. He would have been no type if he had been miraculously kept alive. See further notes below.
was = came to be.
belly = bowels.
three days and three nights. The Hebrew idiom "three days" can be used for parts of three days (and even of years): but not when the word "nights" is added. See Mat_12:40, and note the force of "as". See App-144and App-156.