And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Jonas fit d'abord dans la ville une journée de marche; il criait et disait: Encore quarante jours, et Ninive est détruite!
KJV
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Faustinus
Homily on the Passion of the Lord
bout to proclaim the Lord's wrath to Nineveh, said: Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown (Jonah 3:4); and Christ is sent to the world to announce the day of salvation and the appointed time of judgment. Jonah seeks a ship; Christ seeks the Church. Jonah is tossed by th…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
not live"; in other words, "The disposition of thy body has a tendency to death": and the saying of Jonah 3:4, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed," that is to say, "Its merits demand that it should be destroyed." God is said "to repent," metaphorically, inasmuch as H…
John Chrysostom
NPNF1-13. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
3:29-30 4 4:2-3 4:27 5 5:16 10:13 Hosea 2:5 4:8 6:5 6:6 13:2 Joel 2:28 Amos 2:11 4:13 5:8 5:18 6:4-6 Jonah 3:4 3:4 3:10 Micah 6:2 6:3 Habakkuk 2:4 Zechariah 2:5 13:7 Malachi 1:2-3 2:7 2:15 Matthew 1:21 1:21 1:21 1:21 2 3:3 3:7 3:14 4:18 4:23 5:3 5:3 5:3 5:4 5:4 5:6 5:7 5:8 5:8 5:…
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