Jonah, for example, the prophet from the Old Testament whose story prefigures that of Christ, fled from civilization (in trying to flee from the mission that God had given him) and ended up thrown from a storm-tossed ship into the ocean, where he was swallowed by a whale, or some other great fish, and remained in its belly for three days, before being spewed onto dry land, whereupon he did in fact carry out his mission (to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh to its inhabitants [although, once the inhabitants had heard Jonah, and had repented, Yahweh showed mercy and spared the city]). Which illustrates the notion that one cannot flee from what God wants one to do, even if God, in his wisdom, does not bring about the results one had been led to expect would follow from one’s doing of it.