Purgatory

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Do Catholics see any support for Purgatory in the following?

Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Jonah 2:1-2 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly, And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

Jonah 2:10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
 
I have not heard that used for Purgatory, but rather a prefigurement of Christ in the tomb.
 
FaithofAbraham said:
Do Catholics see any support for Purgatory in the following?

Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Jonah 2:1-2 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly, And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

Jonah 2:10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
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Those verses don’t have anything to do with purgatory. As MarcoPolo already mentioned, I believe that they are a foreshadowing of Christ’s burial and resurrection.
 
Jonah in a sense, may have had a sort of a purgatory on Earth as a bit of suffering, and being caught in the belly of a whale is a purgatory of sorts, that would cause him to repent much deeper.

Christ can forgive us in an instant, or over a protracted time.

I believe that purgatory could be suffered here on Earth or immediately upon our death. Christ did die for us, to forgive us of our sins, that we are cleansed of all of our sins, but still, I think there is a period of time before one can go straight to heaven, because we have to have a period where we can rid of ourselves of all our bad habits, and I believe our bad habits can follow us through death into the spirit world.

(First post in a long long long time)
 
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Those verses don’t have anything to do with purgatory. As MarcoPolo already mentioned, I believe that they are a foreshadowing of Christ’s burial and resurrection.
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It seems that Jesus was comparing being in the belly of the whale or fish – some say sea serpent – to the grave, and a conscious existence of repenting and purification.

It also seems to follow the prophecies of Adam returning to dust when he died, and the serpent swallowing dust and going on his belly, the belly of the serpent being Hell or Purgatory.

Do any Catholics here have a belief that Jesus was there preaching to people?
 
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