 Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot...  The Eclectic Review - Page 349edited by - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 pages
...slight suffering), and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six-score thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much cattle ?"* Now, let me ask, can we, after such a declaration as this, believe that God could ever issue unconditional... | |
 | Frederick William Faber - 1840 - 212 pages
...night and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle 2 ?" Lastly, we come to a passage in which all the others seem to meet,... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...wall of defence. The prophet Jonah describes Nineveh, as " that Great City, wherein are more- than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle." In this passage the mention of cattle clearly intimates that pastures... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1840 - 540 pages
...and evil, is an expression that denotes infancy. Thus in Nineveh it is said there were " more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and left hand," commonly supposed to denote infants. Jonah iv. 2. Comp. Deut. i. 39. The meaning is, that... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1842 - 578 pages
...of oil their traditions allow them to burn on such occasions. that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?" GRASS. FestucaJluitans, Glyceria jluitans, — Sheep's Fescue, Flote... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning - 1842 - 396 pages
...night and perished in a night : and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle ?" 1 — can we doubt, I say, that He who chose out those people by... | |
 | James Gratrix - 1843 - 380 pages
...great city, wherein," though there may be many sinners whose iniquity is full, " are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left," and who consequently are free from actual sin ? It is to be hoped that this instruction brought Jonah to... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1843 - 348 pages
...Ixxi. 6. Jonah iv. 11. God said, Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left ! Mark x. 14. Jesus said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not ; for of... | |
 | 1843 - 142 pages
...population. " Should not^I spare Nineveh, that great city, whereiiI are, THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN. more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left?" Almost every foreign visitor, who writes of this country, expresses astonishment at its vastness.... | |
 | Christian Gottlob Barth - 1844 - 298 pages
...night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ?"a 52. THE LAST KINGS OP JUDAH. AFTER the division of the kingdom,... | |
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