Jonah 4:2 (WEB)
He prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please, LORD, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
Fathers and councils · 2
“In accordance with which Jonah himself says unto the Lord, “Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; for I knew that Thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil.”” — editor's note: Jonah iv. 2.
Read the whole comment“To none other than Him is it suitable, who is also “the Father of mercies,” and (in the prophets) has been described as “full of compassion, and gracious, and plenteous in mercy.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxvi. 15; cxii. 4; cxlv. 8; Jonah iv. 2.
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Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.24.
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