Jonah 3:8 (WEB)
but 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.
Fathers and councils · 5
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…evil way, and the unrighteousness which was in their hands, saying, Who knoweth if God will repent, and turn away His anger from us, and we shall not perish?”—so also, from the beginning, did God permit man to be swallowed up by the great whale, who was the author of transgression, not that he should perish…” — editor's note: Jon. iii. 8, 9.
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Jerome
“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
“…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
“In Jonah you find the signal act of His mercy, which He showed to the praying Ninevites.” — editor's note: Jonah iii. 8.
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John Cassian
“…them; or that the Ninevites, in order to mitigate the sentence of God, which had been pronounced against them by the prophet, were clothed in rough sackcloth.” — editor's note: Jonah iii. 8.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in The Institutes I.2.
Cited together in The Institutes I.2.