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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Jonah</FONT></P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>J O N A H.</B></FONT>
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T<FONT SIZE=-1>HIS</FONT>
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book of Jonah, though it be placed here in the midst of the prophetical
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books of scripture, is yet rather a history than a prophecy; one line
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of prediction there is in it, <I>Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
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overthrown;</I> the rest of the book is a narrative of the preface to
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and the consequences of that prediction. In the midst of the obscure
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prophecies before and after this book, wherein are many things dark and
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hard to be understood, which are puzzling to the learned, and are
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<I>strong meat for strong men,</I> comes in this plain and pleasant
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story, which is entertaining to the weakest, and <I>milk for babes.</I>
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Probably Jonah was himself the penman of this book, and he, as Moses
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and other inspired penmen, records his own faults, which is an evidence
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that in these writings they designed God's glory and not their own. We
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read of this same Jonah
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Ki+14:25">2 Kings xiv. 25</A>,
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where we find that he was of Gath-hepher in Galilee, a city that
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belonged to the tribe of Zebulun, in a remote corner of the land of
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Israel; for the Spirit, which like the wind, <I>blows where it
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listeth,</I> will as easily find out Jonah in Galilee as Isaiah at
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Jerusalem. We find also that he was a messenger of mercy to Israel in
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the reign of Jeroboam the second; for the success of his arms, in the
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<I>restoring of the coast of Israel,</I> is said to be <I>according to
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the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah
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the prophet.</I> Those prophecies were not committed to writing, but
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this against Nineveh was, chiefly for the sake of the story that
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depends upon it, and that is recorded chiefly for the sake of Christ,
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of whom Jonah was a type; it contains also very remarkable instances of
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human infirmity in Jonah, and of God's mercy both in pardoning
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repenting sinners, witness Nineveh, and in bearing with repining
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saints, witness Jonah.</P>
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