Sometimes anti-Semitism got the better of people. Sometimes their imaginations did. The traditions of the rabbis actually connected Jonah with the unidentified son of the widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17). As alluded to earlier, the unbridled imaginations of the early church fathers concocted far-fetched meanings. Augustine saw Jonah as pointing forward to Christ, but also as a sign of the still immature Jewish nation not yet emerged into the full bloom of the Christian church. Luther in preparation