Even More on Origen Connecting the 'Sign of Jonah' With Castration

With this we learn something of a general import: if a sign signifies something, then each of the signs in scripture (whether in historical or law text) is a sign indicative of something to be fulfilled later. Thus 'the sign of Jonah' ... [W]hat is called circumcision is a 'sign' [Rom. 4.11] of what Paul explained in the words 'we are the circumcision' [Phil 3:3]. You too now should search out every sign in the old scriptures as a type of something in the new, and what is called sign in the new covenant as indicative of something either in the age to come or in the generations after that in which the sign took place [Comm. Matt. 12.3]