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... sailors in the storm in favourable contrast with himself , the prophet of God , and by implication at least , the penitent Ninevites in like favourable contrast with impenitent Israel . With noble disregard of self he is content to pass ...
... sailors in the storm in favourable contrast with himself , the prophet of God , and by implication at least , the penitent Ninevites in like favourable contrast with impenitent Israel . With noble disregard of self he is content to pass ...
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... sailors , after all their efforts to save the ship have proved unavailing . The sea then becomes calm , i . 4-16 . II . Jonah's prayer and deliverance , ch . i . 17 — ii . 10 . Swallowed alive by a great fish , prepared by God for the ...
... sailors , after all their efforts to save the ship have proved unavailing . The sea then becomes calm , i . 4-16 . II . Jonah's prayer and deliverance , ch . i . 17 — ii . 10 . Swallowed alive by a great fish , prepared by God for the ...
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... sailor as a " salt . See note on next verse , and for the whole description of their terror and their prayer comp . Ps . cvii . 23-30 ; Matt . viii . 23-27 . every man unto his god ] They were probably Phoenicians , who had the carrying ...
... sailor as a " salt . See note on next verse , and for the whole description of their terror and their prayer comp . Ps . cvii . 23-30 ; Matt . viii . 23-27 . every man unto his god ] They were probably Phoenicians , who had the carrying ...
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... sailors , i . e . the captain . The word here for sailors ( which is singular and used collectively ) is not the same word as that rendered mariners in v . 5. It is formed from the Hebrew word for a rope , and means properly those who ...
... sailors , i . e . the captain . The word here for sailors ( which is singular and used collectively ) is not the same word as that rendered mariners in v . 5. It is formed from the Hebrew word for a rope , and means properly those who ...
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... sailors conclude that the storm is sent upon them by the gods as a judgment for some crime committed by one of their number ; and they proceed to cast lots to discover who the culprit is . Instances of a similar belief on the part of ...
... sailors conclude that the storm is sent upon them by the gods as a judgment for some crime committed by one of their number ; and they proceed to cast lots to discover who the culprit is . Instances of a similar belief on the part of ...
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17 Paternoster Row according to St Amittai Annotated Assyrian Bible for Schools book of Jonah Book of Joshua Cambridge Bible Cambridge Paragraph Bible Cambridge Warehouse cast chapter Christ Christ's College cloth Commentary Comp Crown Octavo deliverance Demy 8vo Demy Octavo Divinity Dr Maclear E. H. Plumptre edited Editor English Notes Epistle of St evil extra fcap fcap Fellow of St Fellow of Trinity fish G. F. Maclear Gospel according gourd Head Master heathen Hebrew Holy Scripture Introduction Israel Jehovah Jeroboam II Jerusalem JONAH'S PREACHING Kalisch Kings late Fellow Lecturer of St London Lord M. T. Ciceronis mercy Nineveh Ninevites Numbers P. G. TAIT plant prayed prayer Price Professor prophet Pusey repentance sackcloth sailors ship St Catharine's College St James St John's College St Mark St Matthew Tarshish temple thee three days Trinity College University of Cambridge unto verse volume whale word writer
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Page 57 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 49 - And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way ; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them ; and he did it not.
Page 51 - And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil; 3.
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Page 25 - Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Page 29 - And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us.
Page 38 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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Page 27 - Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship ; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
Page 30 - Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us ; what is thine occupation ? and whence comest thou ? what is thy country ? and of what people art thou ? And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew ; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.