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JONAH AND THE SEA MONSTER
by Daryl R. Koats
Perhaps no other "mistranslated word" in the AV has
been attacked and condemned as the word "WHALE" in Matthew
12:40. Liberals, Evangelicals, and Fundamentalists join
together denouncing the word. "The Greek word `KETOS' means
sea monster," says the Fundamentalist LIBERTY COMMENTARY in
the New Testament, edited by Jerry Falwell and company. "The
word is mistranslated. It does not mean `WHALE' but sea
monster," says a footnote in the Evangelical NEW SCOFIELD
REFERENCE BIBLE. And the "WHALE of our version is only an
effort at translation," said the LIBERAL COMMENTARY. Here we
see the collusion between born again, soul-winning, Pre-
millennial Fundamentalists, and orthodox, apostate
Fundamentalists, and unsaved apostates. This is the REAL
"ecumenical" movement in America. The is the one place where
all PRE-MILLENNIAL FUNDAMENTALISTS agree with UNSAVED
LIBERALS.
For the Fundamentalist and Evangelical, supposedly,
the word must be a mistranslation because Jonah 1:17 said
that Jonah was swallowed by a GREAT FISH. And every
educated, scientific person knows that a WHALE isn't a FISH.
That is the reason why the NEW RSV and the NEW KJV and NIV
and the NEW ASV changed whale's belly to "belly of the great
fish." But by rendering "KETOS" as they do, these versions
are blatantly inconsistent. After criticizing the AV because
the word "does not mean whale but SEA MONSTER," they,
nevertheless, render the word as "great FISH" and NOT as "sea
monster." Par for the course!
As any scientist can confirm, the Greek word "ketos"
means whale, which ironically is how the liberal RSV
translated it. Well, well, well! The unsaved Communists
that put out the REVISED STANDARD VERSION of the National
Council of Churches, at this point, turn out to be better
Bible believers than the Board of editors of the NEW SCOFIELD
REFERENCE BIBLE and the Fundamentalists who sat on the board
of the NEW KING JAMES VERSION!
It's a strange world, isn't it? The scientific study
of whales, of course, is "Cetology," a word derived from
"ketos" and "logos." The constellation of the whale is named
"CETUS" (after "KETOS"). The hoopla over ketos-whale-sea
monster, then, is obviously another instance of an attack
based on falsified information. Modern man classifies
animals according to PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS, and even then
he cannot accurately classify an animal such as a PLATYPUS.
Could God, if He wanted to, classify animals according to
HABITAT and DESIGN, and not physical features? Certainly the
scriptures suggest such a thing. Refer to Genesis 1:20-22,
Psalm 8:8, 1 Corinthians 15:39, Leviticus 11, and Isaiah
55:8. Something else to consider is the possibility the
expression "great fish" in Jonah 1:17 might not be a
DESCRIPTION but a NAME. As any biologist or zoologist will
concede, NAMES mean nothing in terms of CLASSIFICATION. For
example, the great fresh water sheath fish (SILURUS GLANIS)
used to be named a "river whale" (or the whale of the river),
even though it was NOT A WHALE! The large vasting shark
RHINODON TYPICUS is called the WHALE SHARK EVEN THOUGH IT IS
NOT A WHALE. The rule of thumb remains the same. When in
doubt, throw the scholars out; the AV alone will stand.