Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
When God commanded, man would not minister the prophecy; when God enjoined, the beast cast forth the prophet. The Lord then “taketh the wise in their own craftiness,” when He bringeth back to the service of His own will, that whereby man’s will contradicts Him.” “Jonah, fleeing from the perils of preaching and salvation of souls, fell into peril of his own life. When, in the ship, he took on himself the peril of all, he saved both himself and the ship. He fled as a man; he exposed himself to peril, as a prophet” . “Let them think so, who are sent by God or by a superior to preach to heretics or to pagan. When God calleth to an office or condition whose object it is to live for the salvation of others, He gives grace and means necessary or expedient to this end. For so the sweet and careful ordering of His Providence requireth. Greater peril awaiteth us from God our Judge, if we flee His calling as did Jonah, if we use not the talents entrusted to us to do His will and to His glory. We know the parable of the servant who buried the talent, and was condemned by the Lord.”