| He does not look for prefigurement of the Gospel even in the Old Testament. |
| The article develops the argument that Jonah is understood in the New Testament as a prefigurement of Christ as Judge at the Last Judgment. |
| If the prefigurement was at any point vague it was none the less arresting. |
| Even the experience of Jonah in the belly of the whale is seen as a prefigurement of the mission and role of Jesus, especially his period in the tomb before the resurrection. |
| His predicament, with its eerie prefigurement of the present, provokes a closer look at the crossroads in which culture and finance intersect. |
| In each of these existences the larva or mask is the prefigurement of the succeeding existence. |
