When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto you, into your holy temple.
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
where the sea monster probably lurked in rocks and in sea caves. bars of the earth have enclosed me forever Now, the fact that he was not dead, as I said, but was alive in the sea monster, and suffered nothing in it contributing to death or corruption, would easily be grasped from his having hopes of his being rescued. Consequently he says, And you will raise up my life from corruption, he prays to emerge into the light, and be delivered up from the sea monster’s stomach as though from Hades.
