Gen 40:12-13, 42:17-18, Jos 2:16, Jon 1:17 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 12. The three branches are three days ] That is, The three branches signify three days; so, this IS my body , that is, this bread signifies or represents my body; this cup IS my blood , REPRESENTS my blood ; a form of speech frequently used in the sacred writings, for the Hebrew has no proper word by which our terms signifies, represents , &c., are expressed; therefore it says such a thing IS, for represents, points out , &c. And because several of our ancestors would understand such words in their true, genuine , critical , and sole meaning , Queen Mary, Bishops Gardiner, Bonner, and the rest of that demoniacal crew, reduced them to ashes in Smithfield and elsewhere!

‏ Genesis 40:12-13

Verse 12. The three branches are three days] That is, The three branches signify three days; so, this IS my body, that is, this bread signifies or represents my body; this cup IS my blood, REPRESENTS my blood; a form of speech frequently used in the sacred writings, for the Hebrew has no proper word by which our terms signifies, represents, &c., are expressed; therefore it says such a thing IS, for represents, points out, &c. And because several of our ancestors would understand such words in their true, genuine, critical, and sole meaning, Queen Mary, Bishops Gardiner, Bonner, and the rest of that demoniacal crew, reduced them to ashes in Smithfield and elsewhere!

‏ Genesis 42:17-18

Verse 18. I fear God] eth haelohim ani yare, literally translated the passage runs thus, I also fear the gods; but the emphatic ha is probably added by Joseph, both here and in his conversation with Pharaoh, the more particularly to point out the eminence and perfection of the Supreme Being as contradistinguished from the gods of Egypt. He seems to say to his brethren, I am a worshipper of the true God, and ye have nothing to fear.

‏ Joshua 2:16

Verse 16. Hide yourselves there three days] They were to travel by night, and hide themselves in the day-time; otherwise they might have been discovered by the pursuers who were in search of them.

‏ Jonah 1:17

Verse 17. Now the Lord had prepared a great fish] dag gadol. This could not have been a whale, for the throat of that animal can scarcely admit a man's leg; but it might have been a shark, which abounds in the Mediterranean, and whose mouth and stomach are exceedingly capacious. In several cases they have been known to swallow a man when thrown overboard. See the note on Mt 12:40, where the whole subject of this verse is considered at large. That days and nights do not, among the Hebrews, signify complete days and nights of twenty-four hours, see Es 4:16, compared with Es 5:1; Jud 14:17, 18. Our Lord lay in the grave one natural day, and part of two others; and it is most likely that this was the precise time that Jonah was in the fish's belly.