Jonah (International Critical Commentary | ICC)
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Top Highlights
“He wants to let the question sink deep into the minds of his hearers and readers. He wants to teach the narrow, blind, prejudiced, fanatic Jews of which Jonah is but the type that ‘the love of God is wider than the measures of man’s mind, And the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind: But we make His love too narrow by false limits of our own.’ It embraces all men, not only Israel, even Israel’s enemies!” (Page 64)
“The tale begins with And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, as if it were a continuation, or as if it had been originally one of a cycle of stories. But the phrase and it came to pass had in course of time become so much used in narratives that it could stand at the beginning of a story without requiring an antecedent.” (Page 28)
“Jonah was not angry because his own personal prestige would be lost by the non-occurrence of the doom which he had announced, but because Nineveh had been spared and because he himself had brought this about by his warning.” (Page 57)
“What a scene! The heathen sailor admonishes the Heb. prophet to pray!” (Page 33)
“He knew it as soon as he saw the repentance of the people.” (Page 57)
- Title: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jonah
- Author: Julius A. Bewer
- Series: International Critical Commentary
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 1912
- Logos Release Date: 2005
- Pages: 65
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Jonah › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:ICC_JON
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:04:25Z
About Julias A. Bewer
Julias A. Bewer was associate professor of biblical philology at the Union Theological Seminary in New York.