 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
 | William Ritchie (of Berwick-upon-Tweed.) - 1856 - 258 pages
...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 discern between their right hand and their left hand ?" If he so spares both them, and others on their account, when the crimes of adults cry... | |
 | Philip Charles Soulbieu DESPREZ - 1857 - 158 pages
...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 discern between...right hand and their left, and also much cattle." But leaving these illustrations of the situation in which we find the Prophet placed, we pause a moment... | |
 | Charles Edward Trevelyan - 1857 - 60 pages
...the answer of God to Jonah : — " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand a-nd their left hand, and also much cattle ? " Owing, probably, to its commanding geographical position, there... | |
 | 1858 - 298 pages
...complaint of the disappointed prophet: "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?" Nothing is * Jer. xix. 4, 5 ; see also ii., 34. said of the character of the persons who brought... | |
 | Mrs. Martha Young Salyer - 1920 - 56 pages
...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 discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?" We are left up in the air as to what happened to Jonah. However,... | |
 | Thomas Albert Jefferies - 1920 - 168 pages
...perished in a night : 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? " Authority of the Law. — This book of Jonah was one of the last... | |
 | Charles Fox Burney - 1921 - 278 pages
...perished in a night : 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 1 " JONAH iv. 10, 11. TN my sermon of a fortnight ago I dwelt upon... | |
 | Julius August Bewer - 1922 - 478 pages
...in a night ; and I should not have pity on Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than 120,000 persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left; and also much cattle? (Jonah 4 "".) With this question the story closes. The author does not tell whether Jonah was convinced... | |
 | Laura A. Knott - 1922 - 424 pages
...and perished in a night: and should not I have regard for Nineveh, . . . wherein are more 332 than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle?" Of course Jonah represents Israel. The race has been called to be... | |
 | Leighton Parks - 1922 - 296 pages
...meaning is clear. This is the end of the prophetic spirit which loves its own shelter more than the "six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle." "But who are such?" it may be asked. They are the religious sectarians,... | |
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