Jonah 3:4

“You may as well accuse God of falsehood because He said by the mouth of Jonah:“Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”” — editor's note: iii. 4.

“In the same way too the Divine sentence says to the men of Nineveh: “Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown;” and presently this stern and abrupt sentence is softened by their penitence and fasting, and is turned to the side of mercy with goodness that is easy to be intreated.” — editor's note: Jonah iii. 4 (LXX.).

“…the Ninevites repented, for they said, though after the threatenings of the Prophet, though after that cry, “Three days and Nineve shall be overthrown:” they said to themselves, Mercy must be implored; they said in this sort reasoning among themselves, “Who knoweth whether God may turn for the better His…” — editor's note: Jonah iii. 4.

“But some one may say, “How shall I know whether the prophet Jonah said to the Ninevites, ‘Yet three days and Nineveh shall be overthrown,’ or forty days?”” — editor's note: Jon. iii. 4.