ἄνδρες Νινευῖται. Men of Nineveh or Ninevites; not ‘the men of Nineveh.’

μετενόησαν εἰς τὸ κήρυγμα Ἰωνᾶ. “The people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them,” Jonah 3:5. The εἰς is difficult to explain. Perhaps it is what is called ‘the predicate of destination,’ i.e. so as to adopt the teaching of Jonah, or it may be from analogy with such phrases as πιστεύειν εἰς. Comp. Acts 7:53.

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