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Himself, answering the Pharisees, made the 

 comparison. He is represented both as being 

 cast up by the fish and, in the ensuing in- 

 cident of his history, reposing under the gourd 

 on the east side of the city of Nineveh. The 

 first subject being certainly grotesque, it became 

 more usual to depict him beneath the booth 

 covered with long-shaped gourds, and his sleep- 

 ing figure (usually with the legs crossed) is found 

 constantly both among the Catacomb paintings 

 and on fragments of the early Christian gilded 

 glass. Above him there is always the same 

 pergola-Hke booth with the hanging gourds. 

 One small disk of gold-ornamented Catacomb 

 glass ' has upon it the usual gourd, but below, 

 in place of Jonah, there is a large fish (Ichthys), 

 an emblem of Christ dating from the second 

 century. Thus the type of Christ has been re- 

 placed by His emblem, but the gourd, by asso- 

 ciation symbol of His Resurrection, remains. 



Therefore in these pictures by Crivelli the 

 apple would be the symbol of our death by the 

 act of Adam, and the gourd of our Resurrection 

 by the act of the second Adam, Jesus Christ. 



' Vatican Museum. 



