...ways of evil and violence, and to denounce the overthrow of the empire, if they failed to repent. " Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it: for their wickedness is come up before me." Jon. i. 2 — We are instructed by Christ himself to contemplate the Almighty as a mornl governor,...

...Nineveh, that great City of the Assyrians, ami cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before 160 me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to .Toppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went...

...error either in the writer or the copyist of the passage itself in the Scriptures, where it is said, " But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish." Now Tarshish, according to the best authorities...

...fish he had just taken out of the water ; and, from his eagerness to shew what he had caught, (4) " But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to ,)oppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish." Jonah \. 3. (5) Acts ix. 40. (6) Adrichom....

...our God. * Amos ii. 13. The wickedness of the Ninevites was great, and " the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying, arise, go to Nineveh...against it ; for their wickedness is come up before me." Jonah was unwilling to go on this high errand, and his conduct on the occasion led to a remarkable...

...said that God " repented of the evil." That evil was the destruction of Nineveh for its wickedness. " Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before me." When this terrible sentence was denounced by the prophet Jonah, the effect which it appears to have...

...said that God " repented of the evil." That evil was the destruction of Nineveh for its wickedness. " Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for their wickedness is come tip before me." When this terrible sentence was denounced by the prophet Jonah, the effect which it...

...temple, was considered by the Jews as the place of God's peculiar presence, is manifest from Jonah 1:3. " But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish, from the presence of the Lord." Where he believed the Lord's presence to be, we learn from chap. 2:4. "I am cast out of thy sight;...

...instance), who tried to flee from the presence of God ; that was, Jonah. When God sent him to Nineveh, he rose up to flee unto Tarshish, from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa, and he found a ship going to Tarshish : so he paid the fare thereof, and went down...

...own country ; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and и lifted up even to the skies, Jer. li. 3. Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for theii wickedness is come up before me, Jonah i. 2. ь And the great city was divided into three parts,...