1391. Moreover, similar portrayals are also in the world, for all those things actually occur on earth, and they cannot but occur, because they symbolize something - for instance, that Jonah was swallowed by a whale [Jonah 1:17], which actually happened in the world; and even the miracles of Egypt [Ex. 7], and many other occurrences that are called miracles.
1391. Moreover, there are also similar representations in the world, for on earth all those things come into existence actually, so that it cannot be otherwise than that they come into existence, as long as they are significant: as that Jonah was swallowed by a whale [Jonah i. 17, which actually happened in the world, as also the miracles of Egypt, and many others which are called miracles.
1391. Praeterea similes quoque in mundo sunt, nam omnia ista actualiter existunt in terra, sic ut non possit aliter quam ut existant, dum significant, sicut quod Jonas deglutitus sit a balaena [Jon. I: 17-], quod actualiter factum in mundo; tum quoque miracula Aegypti [Ex. VII passim], et plura alia, quae miracula dicuntur.