| Jonah 4:1
| And Jonas was exceedingly troubled, and was angry:
| Troubled. His concern was lest he should pass for a false prophet; or rather lest God's word, by this occasion might come to be slighted and disbelieved. (Challoner) --- He conjectured that God would spare the penitent Ninivites, and feared lest prophecies should be deemed uncertain. But this doubt is solved by observing that some are conditional, (chap. 3:4., and Jeremias 18:8.) as it proved here. When the people relapsed, they were afterwards destroyed, Nahum i., etc. (Worthington) (Chap. 3:10.) --- The conversion of Ninive was an earnest of that of the Gentiles. (Calmet) --- This being so intimately connected with the reprobation of the Jews, (Haydock) the prophet was grieved at the misery of the latter, (St. Jerome) which our Saviour and St. Paul bewailed. (Acts 11:2.; Romans 10:19.; Luke xix.; etc.) Yet Jonas seems to have considered himself rather too much.
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