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Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 5. God. They were idolaters. verse 6.—Wares, which is commonly done in storms. Calmet.—This loss was in punishment of their sins; though they seem not devoid of some fear of God and man. Bible.—Sleep. This is a lively image of the insensibility of sinners, fleeing from God, and threatened on every side with his judgments; and yet sleeping as if they were secure. Challoner.—Yet Jonas was sleeping through grief. Saint Jerome Matthew 26:40. Calmet.
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