Where the Fathers quote Jonah 2
27 citations across the Patrologia Graeca — from the printed citations of the English pass; every reference opens the page with its facsimile one tap away. · trace across the Tradition ›
1Jonah 2:1
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:571B…rth into a voice sent to the sinner? By no means: but while He speaks, through the things themselves He speaks to the unworthy. "The Lord commanded the whale" (Jon. 2:1). Did He emit a voice, or did He bring…
Nilus of Sinai d. c. 430PG 79:297C…ne indignation, even if you seem to be inflamed with a zeal for godliness. For the most blessed Jonas had the excessive heat of his zeal softened by the whale (Jon. 2:1). Watch out, therefore, lest you too, b…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:617…away and our affairs have shifted toward serenity and jonas prayed to the lord his god out of the belly of the whale and said i cried in my affliction to the lord my god and…
Symeon the New Theologian 949–1022PG 120:625D…be as if in an impassable wilderness, and one full of wild beasts; whence, with incredible fear and the greatest trembling, he cries out to the Lord, as Jonah (Jon. ii, 1 seqq.) did from the whale and the sea o…
Theophylact of Ohrid c. 1055 – after 1107PG 126:933…to the nations and those who repented were saved c vers and jonah prayed unto the lord his god out of the belly of the whale and said i cried in my affliction unto the lord…
2Jonah 2:2
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:95…is glory to the sustainer first with my voice i cried to the lord and he heard me from his holy mountain the preceding psalm also makes mention of this mountain where it said but i…
Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:1219…h song of ascents psalm h in my tribulation i cried to the lord and he heard me o lord deliver my soul from wicked lips and from a deceitful tongue what shall be given to…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 69:727…how by praying he was heard saying with my voice i cried unto the lord and he heard me out of his holy hill vers ego dormivi et soporatus sum b in this place he speaks…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:617…and said i cried in my affliction to the lord my god and he heard me out of the belly of hell you heard my cry you heard my voice d unharmed and using the whale…
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:863…in the third psalm after the words i cried with my voice unto the lord and he heard me out of his holy hill b we find the diapsalma appended but aquila joined it thus and…
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 81:1729…i cried he says in my affliction to the lord my god and he heard me out of the belly of hell came my cry for i he says who long thought that he appeared to…
Andrew of Crete c. 660–740PG 97:1357…h c i cried with my whole heart to the merciful god and he heard me out of the lowest hell and raised my life from corruption the tears of my eyes o savior and the…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1267C…, and vain is the salvation of man. Psal. cxxiii, 1. — If it had not been that the Lord was in us, let Israel now say; if it had not been that the Lord, etc. Jon. ii, 2. — I cried in my tribulation to the Lor…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:21C…uits." Jon. I, 12. — "Jonas said to them: Take me up, and throw me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm, for I have known that this storm is on my account." Jon. II, 2. — "I cried in my tribulation." Jon. IV…
Theophylact of Ohrid c. 1055 – after 1107PG 126:933…and said i cried in my affliction unto the lord my god and he heard me out of the belly of hell thou hast heard the cry of my voice the prophet suffered no harm from…
OrigenesPG 16:995…jerome i cried with my voice unto the lord with my voice unto the lord and he heard me my hand was stretched out by night and it ceased not jerome my hand is stretched out…
3Jonah 2:3
Nicephorus I of Constantinople c. 758–828PG 100:985…the coast and caused no small multitude of those sailing to sink into the deep in the midst of these events the emperor being greatly alarmed commanded the officials to cast nets into the sea so…
5Jonah 2:5
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:331D…caused God to revoke His sentence once again. Have you seen what great power hope has? But what of the prophet himself? When he was in the belly of the whale (Jon. 2:5), did he not remember the temple and hi…
6Jonah 2:6
Procopius of Gaza c. 465–528PG 87:901…the judgments of the Lord will be known, which are a vast abyss, and a deep vein of divine riches, wisdom, and knowledge; for the abyss is his wall [Jonah ii, 6]. But waters flow through the open fields of humble and fer…
Maximus the Confessor c. 580–662PG 90:695C…mbrace it and are devoted to it, is only that they are sunk into the deep and swallowed up by the whale, and that "water is poured about them even to the soul" Jon. II, 6; and that they are "encompassed by the…
7Jonah 2:7
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:621…were to emerge from the belly of the whale as from hades when my soul fainted within me i remembered the lord and let my prayer come unto thee into thy holy temple xvi to those…
Hadrian the Monk fl. c. 425-450PG 98:1299…arm let them be as still as a stone," instead of, "they might be as still"; and, "May my life go up from destruction" (Ps. LXVIII, 29; Exod. XV, 16; Jonas II, 7). The Beginning of Terms in Composition These…
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 81:1731…to you o lord my god vers when my soul was fainting within me i remembered the lord and let my prayer come to you into your holy temple since he says when i was at…
Paschal Chronicle c. 630PG 92:275…ascended from corruption o lord my god when my soul was failing within me i remembered the lord and let my prayer come to you to your holy temple those who keep vain and lying vanities…
Theophylact of Ohrid c. 1055 – after 1107PG 126:939…he said i ascend to my father vers when my soul failed within me i remembered the lord and let my prayer come i beseech thee to thy holy temple tribulations do not depart from the…
8Jonah 2:8
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 83:1333…the oars of the ship we cry out with him those who observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy but perhaps our lord and his the prophet's lord will grant that we also may emerge and…
14Jonah 2:14
Proclus of Constantinople c. 390 – 446PG 65:711B…e wolf, and forced the belly of the ravenous beast to vomit forth those he had held from of old, just as once when the whale pulled out the man like Jonah (Jon. II, 14). Let kings hasten, because the King of…