They that regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
So when the prophet's life was exposed to danger and underwent hardship in the extreme, he likewise had recourse to something beneficial, not like some people giving way to depression and falling to cursing the divine decrees, but remembering the one who saves. my prayer might come to you, to your holy temple
LXX: 'when my spirit failed in me, I remembered the Lord'. Although I hoped for no aid, he says, the memory of the Lord saved me, according to this passage: "I remembered the Lord and I rejoiced", and in another passage, "I remembered former days and I remembered the days of eternity". I had lost all hope of finding a way out: my body was so frail in the intestines of the whale that I could not hope for my life. And so, everything that seemed impossible I found to be surpassed by the thought of the Lord. I saw myself imprisoned in the intestines of the whale, and all my hope was the Lord. From this we can learn that, according to the Septuagint, at the time when our spirit fails us, it is wrenched from its union with the body, and we ought not to turn our thoughts from Him who inside and outside our body is the Lord. For the Saviour the interpretation is not very difficult because he said, "my spirit is sad to die", and "My Father, if it is possible let this cup pass me by", and, "I pl...
