Jonah 4:11 (WEB)
Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”
Fathers and councils · 3
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Those, doubtless, who do believe God, and who have continued in His love; as did Caleb [the son] of Jephunneh and Joshua [the son] of Nun, and innocent children, who have had no sense of evil.” — editor's note: [Jon. iv. 11. The tenderness of our author constantly asserts itself, as in this reference to children.]
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Jerome
“His position was thus illustrated:“Thou grievest over the ivy (or gourd), for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night; and…” — editor's note: Jonah iv. 10, 11.
Read the whole comment“…more must they be responsible for them when, still unweaned and weak, they cannot, in the Lord’s words, “discern between their right hand and their left:”—when, that is to say, they cannot yet distinguish good from evil?” — editor's note: Jon. iv. 11.
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.28.