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Jonah
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The LORD’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying, See also: Jonah 1:1“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.” See also: Ezekiel 2:7Jeremiah 1:17Jonah 1:2So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across. See also: Psalms 80:10Genesis 22:3Matthew 21:28-29Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!” See also: Deuteronomy 18:22Jeremiah 18:7-10Jonah 3:10The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least. See also: Luke 11:32Daniel 9:3Matthew 12:41The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. See also: Esther 4:1-4James 4:6-10Daniel 9:3He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; See also: 2 Chronicles 20:3Jonah 3:5Joel 1:18but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. See also: Isaiah 59:6Jonah 1:6Isaiah 55:6-7Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?” See also: 2 Samuel 12:22Joel 2:13-14Luke 15:18-20God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it. See also: Jeremiah 18:81 Kings 21:27-29Exodus 32:14
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)7 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Jonah 3:2
Ver. 2. Bid thee before, or when thou shalt be there. C. --- He seems to have retired to Jerusalem.
M.
↑ 2Jonah 3:3
Ver. 3. Journey. By the computation of some ancient historians, Ninive was about fifty miles round: so that to go through all the chief streets and public places, was three days' journey. Ch.
--- Diodorus (iii. 1.) says Ninive was 150 stadia or furlongs in length. It must have been therefore 480 round; and as each furlong contains 125 paces of 5 ft.
each, the compass would be "60 Italian miles, (about 50 Eng.)" which would employ a person three days to go through the principal streets. W. --- Ninive
"was much larger that Babylon." Strabo xvi. --- Heb. "a great city of God,"
&c. denoting its stupendous size.
↑ 3Jonah 3:4
Ver. 4. Journey. He records what he said the first day, though he seems to have preached many (Theod.) even during forty days, after which time (H.) he expected the city would fall, and therefore retired out of the walls. C. iv. ---
Forty. Sept. three. S. Justin, (dial.) "three, or forty-three." Theodoret thinks that the mistake was made by some ancient transcriber, and has since prevailed in all the copies of the Sept. All the rest have forty. S. Aug. (de civ. Dei. xviii. 44.) believes the Sept. placed three for a mysterious reason. Origen (hom. xvi.
Num.) suggests that the prophet determined the number, and hence God did not execute the threat. C. --- This and many other menaces are conditional. If men repent, God will change his sentence. S. Chrys. S.
Greg. Mor. xvi. 18. W.
↑ 4Jonah 3:5
Ver. 5. God. They were convinced that he had wrought such wonders in the person of Jonas, with a desire of their welfare, particularly as he allowed them some delay. Accordingly they did penance for about forty days, and their conversion was so sincere, that Christ proposes it to his disciples. Mat. xii. 41.
C. --- Thus "the city was overturned in its perverse manners." S. Aug. de civ.
Dei. xxi. 24. and Ps. l. --- They were at an end, and the city was renovated. H.
↑ 5Jonah 3:6
Ver. 6. King Sardanapalus, (Salien, A. 3216) or rather his father, Phul, whom Strabo calls Anacyndaraxes, (C.) and who died in the year 3237, (Usher) four years after he had invaded Palestine. 4 K. xv. 19.
↑ 6Jonah 3:7
Ver. 7. Princes. Their consent was requisite, to form an irrevocable edict. Dan.
vi. 8. --- Men.
Even infants, according to the Fathers. Joel ii. 16. S. Basil adds also, the young of cattle. This was done to excite rational beings to repentance. Theod.
--- We do not find that cattle were deprived of food on such occasions among the Jews. But Virgil specifies that this was the case at the death of Cæsar, (Ecl.
v.) as it was in droughts among some nations of America. Horn ii. 13.
C. --- When people are greatly moved by repentance, they exceed in austerity; but if this be not indiscreet, God accepts of their good intention. W.
↑ 7Jonah 3:10
Ver. 10. Mercy. Heb. "repented," as some copies of the Sept. read, while others have, "was comforted." H. --- God suspended the stroke. But as the people soon relapsed, Sardanapalus burnt himself to death, and the city was taken, (S. Jer.) thirty-seven years after Jeroboam. A.
3257. Usher. --- Yet this was only a prelude to its future ruin, foretold by Tobias, (xiv. 5. in Gr.) and effected by Nabopolassar and Astyages. C. A. 3378. Usher.
--- The vestiges did not appear in the days of Lucian, (Charon. C.) soon after Christ. H.
↑ 10License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses