Matthew Poole and continuators on Jonah 2:4

4 Then I said , I am cast out of thy sight , yet I will look again towards thy holy temple ?

Though this word with us ordinarily denoteth time, yet here it denoteth order and connexion, the Hebrew is And.

With my self, I thought in the midst of my fears and sufferings.

Cut off from all hope of Life among men, rejected, forsaken, and as 'twere forgotten of my God, and left by this death to pass to a worser death. Thus he was wrackt with sense of present danger from Gods displeasure, and is almost carried away with a despair of ever seeing the face of God again with comfort, much as Psal. 31.22. and Lam. 4.22.

His Faith begins to recover it self, he will not as despairing ones any more look toward lost hopes, but with reviving hope he will hope against hope, and never yeild to such despairs.

Where the Ark of the Covenant, where the mercy seat, where propitiatory sacrifices are offered, where is Gods High Priest, Types of the Great Redeemer, Mediator, and Saviour, by whom sin is expiated, s[illegible: 2 letters]ners pardon'd, grace and favour communicated, where God commands the blessing, Life for evermore, he will look and hope to appear in the material Typical Temple, and to find there grace dispositive for, as well as significative of Glory in the heavenly Temple, he hopes for both.