Jonah 3:10 (WEB)
God 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.
Fathers and councils · 8
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VI.6Conference VI
“And so evils are sometimes wont to stand for afflictions, as where we read: “And God repented of the evil which He had said that He would do to them and He did it not.”” — editor's note: Jonah iii. 10 (LXX.).
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Jerome
“Nineveh was saved by its tears from the impending ruin caused by its sin.” — editor's note: Jon. iii. 5, 10.
Read the whole comment“The same conduct is in the Chronicles attributed to Manasseh, and in the book of the prophet Jonah to Nineveh, and in the gospel to the publican.” — editor's note: Jon. iii. 5–10.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters Letter 77To Theodore, Bishop of Tyana
“The people of Nineve are threatened with an overthrow, but by their tears they redeem their sin.” — editor's note: Jon. iii. 10.
Read the whole comment “…stink through his wickedness; and who goeth mourning and of a sad countenance; who imitates the repentance of Manasseh and the humiliation of the Ninevites upon which God had mercy; who utters the words of the Publican in the Temple, and is justified rather than the stiff-necked Pharisee; who like the Canaanite…” — editor's note: Jon. iii. 7–10.
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Tertullian
“…repentance rather than his death, which prefers mercy to sacrifice, averting from the Ninevites the ruin which had been already denounced against them, and vouchsafing to Hezekiah’s tears an extension of his life, and restoring his kingly state to the monarch of Babylon after his complete repentance; that…” — editor's note: Jonah iii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Look here then, say you: I discover a self-incriminating case in the matter of the Ninevites, when the book of Jonah declares, “And God repented of the evil that He had said that He would do unto them; and He did it not.”” — editor's note: Jonah iii. 10.
Read the whole comment“I see how the Ninevites obtained forgiveness of their sins from the Creator—not to say from Christ, even then, because from the beginning He acted in the Father’s name.” — editor's note: Jonah iii. 10.
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Cross-references · 30
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Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.24.
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Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.24.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.24.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.24.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.24.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.6.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.6.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.24.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 77.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.17.
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Matthew 25:45 takes up the words of Jonah 3:10 (8 words in common).