Bible Dictionary: Dragon: Interpreted As Whale, In

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Genesis 1:21
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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Job 7:12
Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?
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Library

In Time. The Beginning of Creation.
... called in another passage [4533] the great whale (leviathan) which ... to mock at, and
that the dragon was the ... His works." Here the term could be interpreted as in ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/17 -2 in time the.htm

On the Words, and Rose Again from the Dead on the Third Day, and ...
... mountains [1753] ; and yet he was in the belly of the whale. ... Matthew 28:5. The emphatic
humeis is rightly interpreted by Cyril ... [1781] Bel and the Dragon, v. 33 ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture xiv on the words.htm

Notes
... In l.16 the first bird-notes are interpreted by the ... the Apocryphal "Bel and the Dragon")
with the OT prophet ... placing the prophet in the very jaws of the whale. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/prudentius/the hymns of prudentius/notes.htm

On the Words Incarnate, and Made Man.
... 1380] Psalm 18:9. The "feet," interpreted allegorically, mean ... 1406] Death is here
called "the dragon," as in ... 17 he is called "the invisible whale," in allusion ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture xii on the words.htm

Scriptural Predictions of an Apostasy.
... That a whale swallowed Jonah, in whose belly he lay three ... seven heads" have by some
writers been interpreted to be ... the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him ...
/.../orr/the gospel day /chapter ii scriptural predictions of.htm

1 Cor. xv. 1, 2
... days and three nights in the whale's belly, so ... For as the dragon having taken the
food which the ... sign is variously yet without contradiction interpreted by the ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xxxviii 1 cor xv.htm

The Holy War,
... unborn were destroyed.' 'The women were beastlike abused.' This is interpreted by
two ... was determined that the giant Diabolus should assume the dragon, for that ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the holy war.htm

Subtopics

Dragon

Dragon of the Sea

Dragon Well

Dragon: A Poisonous Serpent

Dragon: A Serpent or the Desert

Dragon: A Term Applied: To Pharaoh

Dragon: A Term Applied: To Satan

Dragon: A Wolf

Dragon: Interpreted As Whale, In

Dragon: Serpent

Dragon: Symbolical