12:39. “An adulterous generation.”] I.e. a generation or race from adultery, not trueborn children of Abraham and of God, bastards and not sons, “a spurious race degenerated from the piety of their ancestors.” Doddridge.4 12:40. “In the whale’s belly.”] “It is nowhere said in the Old Testament, that Jonah was swallowed by a whale; and it is the less probable, as whales are seldom found in the Mediterranean, and as the gullet of the whale is said to be so small, as not to be capable of receiving even