CHAPTER VI. THE NEW COMMISSION GIVEN TO JONAH, AND THE WONDERFUL
RESULTS THAT FLOWED FROM ITS EXECUTION
THE sojourn of Jonah for a time in the deep waters, and his singular
experience there, having been mainly designed to prepare him for doing
aright the work of the Lord's ambassador to Nineveh, he... [ Continue Reading ]
A spirit of reckless levity and unbelief might still have led the
people to treat all with indifference, and to add to their other sins
by rejecting the Lord's messenger as a false witness, and one that
sought to trouble them with groundless fears. But a different spirit
happily prevailed; and, rega... [ Continue Reading ]
4. The last step in a true repentance the return in faith and
confidence to God is also represented to have been taken by the
Ninevites. Without this their repentance could certainly not have been
complete; for as the essence of all sin consists in the spirit of
independence and enmity it manifests... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER VII. GOD'S CHANGE OF PURPOSE AT THE REPENTANCE OF NINEVEH, AND
THE LIGHT THEREBY FURNISHED FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF HIS WORD AND
WAYS
THE intimation given in the book of Jonah regarding the procedure of
God toward Nineveh in the new circumstances in which it now stood, is
delivered with gr... [ Continue Reading ]