 | 1858 - 890 pages
...had a suspicion that Nineveh would be spared, for what does he say when he pravcd unto the Lord, " I know that thou art a gracious God, and merciful,...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil." Further, the supposition that Israel fight be encouraged by the sparing of Nineveh, is not at all probable.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1859 - 342 pages
...with my flesh?" Or listen to Jonah's irony, thrown up in the very nostrils of Jehovah — " I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil ; therefore, now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me." These expressions, amid many similar,... | |
 | Thulia Susannah Engall - 1859 - 412 pages
...weak-hearted pity. Yet even that would have been better than his real reason. " I knew," he ' says, " that Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil." He knew that if. the people of Nineveh were to repent, they would find mercy. He asked himself what... | |
 | William Taylor - 1856 - 418 pages
...successfully, and the people should repent, thou wilt not bring upon them the judgments of thy word. "For. thou art a gracious G^od, .and merciful, slow to anger,...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil." So the people will call me a lying impostor, and perhaps take away my life; and. then relapse into... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1859 - 566 pages
...Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled ; for I knew moo wert a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil."* He told beforehand what the event would be, and he had reason to know it; God proclaimed it in a cloud... | |
 | 1859 - 258 pages
...Therefore I fled before nnto Tarshish : for I knew that thon art a graeions God, and mereifnl, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Jonah iv. 2. Self-denial — Dnty and Bfessinos of. If any man will eome after me, let him deny himself,... | |
 | Philip Pugh - 1860 - 286 pages
...Nineveh, and with that prophet have said — " I pray, thee, O Lord, was not this my saying. For I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, .slow...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me ; for it is better H for me to die than... | |
 | 1860 - 234 pages
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my covmtry ? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish : for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than... | |
 | Russell Lant Carpenter - 1860 - 176 pages
...than by their reformation. He was exceedingly displeased, and said in his great anger : — " I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil. Therefore now, 0 LORD, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than... | |
 | Ashton Oxenden (bp. of Montreal.) - 1860 - 300 pages
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my country ? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil." He had rather see the whole city swept away, than that his own words should seem to fail. He is a disappointed... | |
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Lord, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 
