For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
La chose parvint au roi de Ninive; il se leva de son trône, ôta son manteau, se couvrit d'un sac, et s'assit sur la cendre.
KJV
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Remigius of Reims
Four Epistles to Clovis
r episcopacy. I asked that Claudius, the perpetrator of sacrilege, be kept in repentance. We read in Jonah 3:5-10 that the Ninevites, through repentance, escaped the destruction foretold by a heavenly warning. John, the precursor of the Lord, preached in the Gospel (Matthew 3:2)…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
and joy they wear finer clothes. Hence penitents make use of coarse apparel, for example, the king ( Jonah 3:6 ) who "was clothed with sack-cloth," and Achab ( 3 Kings 21:27 ) who "put hair-cloth upon his flesh." Sometimes, however, it is a sign of the contempt of riches and worl…
Augustine of Hippo
NPNF1-04. Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists
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