Jesus , as the character of the bible, was never in Rome. It has to do with rebirth, and they believed at the time men came from fishes. The Rabbi Gamaliel named his students after fish. Where do you think Dagan came from?
Rome called jews fish. That is why Jesus said to get the tax from a fish, as the Jews would swallow their money and try and escape Jerusalem during the War of the Jews.
That is where they got the idea of swallowing diamonds during WWII, if they did or not we don't know, they said they did and it was in one of the movies.
penny-----you get more and more pathetic. Jews did not invent the idea of swallowing gems----
and, in fact, did not do so--------the Russian sect of catholics------THE EASTERN ORTHODOX ----
did that--------when they escaped with their immense wealth from GREAT MOTHER RUSSIA .
The jewish doctors warned about lacerations to the gastrointestinal tract-----but the idiot goyim
did it anyway. They are STILL swallowing condoms filled with heroin? ----you might know----
do your people save up USED condoms for the purpose?
for the record-------jews used fish as an artistic motif long before rommulus and remus landed
in "ROME"
in fact the BOOK OF JONAH was written long before little remus was suckled by a wild wolf
In the Zohar (Wayaḳhel) it is related that the fish died as soon as Jonah entered, but was
revived after three days. When
Jonah was thrown into the sea his soul immediately left his body and soared up to God's throne, where it was judged and sent back. As soon as it touched the mouth of the fish on its way back to the body, the fish died, but was later restored to life. The fish's name is given in "Shalshelet ha-Ḳabbalah" as
(
i.e., "cetos" = "whale"). The fate of Jonah is allegorized in the Zohar (Wayaḳhel) as illustrative of the soul's relation to the body and to death. In the assumption that Jonah is identical with the
Messiah, the son of Joseph, the influence of Christian thought is discernible (comp. Matt. xii. 39-41).
JONAH - JewishEncyclopedia.com
the Zohar is a book of MYSTICAL INTERPRETATIONS ----------try to google the word
ALLEGORY. The book itself has nothing to do with "the" JESUS of the NT or Christian thought-----
of course MATTHEW was influenced in his writings by jewish mysticism. Try to
get things straight in your little mind, penny dear. The "tax collector"------was, by his writings---
clearly familiar with Jewish writings, symbolism and mystical interpretations. I knew the story of
SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARFS when I was six
Of course its an allegory, but in those days people believed it as :
Origin of humankind[edit]
Anaximander speculated about the beginnings and
origin of animal life. Taking into account the existence of fossils[
dubious – discuss], he claimed that animals sprang out of the sea long ago. The first animals were born trapped in a spiny bark, but as they got older, the bark would dry up and break.
[47] As the early humidity evaporated, dry land emerged and, in time, humankind had to adapt. The 3rd century Roman writer
Censorinus reports:
Anaximander of Miletus considered that from warmed up water and earth emerged either fish or entirely fishlike animals. Inside these animals, men took form and embryos were held prisoners until puberty; only then, after these animals burst open, could men and women come out, now able to feed themselves.
[48]
Anaximander put forward the idea that humans had to spend part of this transition inside the mouths of big fish to protect themselves from the Earth's climate until they could come out in open air and lose their scales.
[49] He thought that, considering humans' extended infancy, we could not have survived in the primeval world in the same manner we do presently.
