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 six score thousand persons that cannot... The Eclectic Review - Page 349edited by - 1816Full view - About this book
| J. Sidlow Baxter, James Sidlow Baxter - 1986 - 1848 pages
...to "much cattle" in Nineveh is therefore easily understandable. The mention, in that same verse, of "six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand," means that there were some hundred and twenty thousand infants there alone. From this it... | |
| Pope John Paul I - 2001 - 292 pages
...night and perished in a night: And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle.' The theme of universalism—which is also very clear in the prophecies... | |
| Erich Fromm - 1990 - 388 pages
...conscience. The God who speaks to Jonah, feeling compassion "with that great city wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand and also much cattle" speaks with the voice of the all-forgiving mother. The same polarity... | |
| Johanna Manley - 1990 - 1144 pages
...not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no livestock?" JOSHUA 5 AND JOSHUA FELL ON HIS FACE TO THE EARTH AND WORSHIPED 10 So the children of Israel... | |
| Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...Corinthians 1:22 92 ... and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city; wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? Jonah 4:11 93 And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many... | |
| Avi Erlich - 2010 - 298 pages
...Latin pecus, cow): "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; and also much cattle." These are the last words of the story, an anticlimactic cattle-count tossed at Jonah. An exasperated... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1995 - 944 pages
...and perished in a night, and should not I spare Nineveh that great city in which are more than three score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left." Here is both the winding up of the satire and the moral of the fable. As a satire it strikes... | |
| Neal Riemer - 1996 - 266 pages
...the regard for the people that God teaches him at the end is only a rather abstract "pity" for the "six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand" (Jon. 4:11). This last phrase probably refers to the children of Nineveh; the adults, it... | |
| J. Sidlow Baxter - 1997 - 260 pages
...We recall texts like Jonah 4:11, "Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand?" Those were the little babies in Nineveh. If God was so solicitous for them physically,... | |
| K. J. Thurlow - 1998 - 266 pages
...Stereochemistry . . . and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city: wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; Jonah 4:11 This is very important and can be rather complicated. Cis-trans isomerism is... | |
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