Where the Fathers quote Jonah 3

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Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:601…is quite fitting and blameless h chap i h and the word of the lord came unto jonah the son of amathi saying arise and go to nineveh that great city and preach in it for… Theophylact of Ohrid c. 1055 – after 1107PG 126:913…who judge rightly h chapter one h a vers and the word of the lord came unto jonah the son of amittai for what reason did he begin thus for the expression and it came to… Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 395PG 44:1373…haps that it alluded to that verse in Deuteronomy 11, 27: "We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left," whereas the words of the prophet Jonah 3, 2 are rather used: οἵτινες οὐκ ἔγνωσαν δεξιὰν αὐτῶν, οὐδὲ ἀρ… Basil the Great c. 329–379PG 30:971…nvolved, so that St. Stephen is saying that Moses was "pleasing, festive, and delightful/beautiful to God"—that is, exceedingly beautiful, just as in Jonah 3:3: Hē de Nineuē ēn polis megalē tō Theō: "Now Nineveh was a… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:693…yet three days or as the hebrews say they have it written yet forty days and nineveh shall be destroyed the men of nineveh however believed in god and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 13:497…for if he had heard these words of the prophecy yet three days and nineveh shall be overthrown whether he is telling the truth or deceiving if he repents which he would not have done if… Diodore of Tarsus d. c. 394PG 33:1577B…s rather the mark of a false prophet. But we will say to him who says these things, that God Himself, saying, "Yet three days, and Nineveh will be overthrown" (Jon. III, 4), because of the repentance of those ag… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 47:299B…ife, will be granted. Hear what follows. The Ninevites, upon hearing the prophet vehemently threatening, "Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" (Jon. III, 4), did not even then lose heart, althoug… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 48:1027B…, we might repel the punishment that was to be inflicted in reality; thus also He dealt with the barbarians: “Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown” (Jon. 3:4). Why then do you not overthrow? You th… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:75C…id to men, and cities, and nations, and whole peoples. For He threatened the city of the Ninevites, and said: "Yet three days, and Nineve shall be overthrown" (Jon. 3.4). What then, tell me? Was Nineve overth… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:209A…never heard anyone philosophizing, having never received such commandments, upon hearing the prophet saying, "Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" (Jon. 3:4), in three days cast off their entire e… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:279D…y gone forth had driven them from hope. For it did not say, "If they repent, they shall be saved," but only: "Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" (Jon. III, 4). But nevertheless, with God threatenin… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:307C…of the city He wishes to bend it, foreseeing the future flight of the prophet. But let us hear the preaching: Yet three days, and Nineve shall be subverted (Jon. iii, 4). And for the sake of what do you procl… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:311B…he read the sentence, just as a royal epistle bearing penalties indicted by a king, and he cried out saying: "Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" [Jon. 3:4]. The power of penance and fasting is… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 52:475…wreck, never having associated with him before, but seeing him then for the first time, entering and saying: "Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" (Jon. 3.4), were so changed and made better by th… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:99C…blow. Does the Prophet’s “bow and arrow and sharpened sword” not seem to you to be words, when he says: “Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown” (Jon. 3:4)? But he did not let the arrow fly; for… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:617D…rrounding him, the prophet enters into the midst, naked, with dusty feet, sweating in his face, and he says: "Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" (Jon. 3:4). What are you doing, O prophet? If the… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:635…subverted" (Jon. 3. 4): we understand it with the implicit co… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 62:583…nah the threats of destruction had not been leveled, the destruction would not have been prevented; if He had not said, "Nineveh shall be overturned" (Jonah 3:4), Nineveh would not have remained; if the threats of hell w… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:591…them, he read the sentence like a royal letter containing their punishment, and he shouted saying: "Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown" (Jonah III, 4). They heard these things, and they did not disbelieve, the… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:837B…sentence cast them into despair. For he did not say, "If they repent, they shall be saved," but simply, Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown (Jon. 3. 4). And yet, though God was threatening,… Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:625…a city great to god as of a journey of three days and jonah began to enter into the city as of a journey of one day and he preached and said yet three days and… Maximus the Confessor c. 580–662PG 90:719…prophetic grace was sent which proclaimed the blessed destruction saying yet three days and nineveh shall be overthrown having reached this point in the fixed duration of the days i think i shall pass over other… Theophylact of Ohrid c. 1055 – after 1107PG 126:943…a journey of one day and he preached and said yet three days and nineveh shall be overthrown h he did not preach by making his way straight through the city but by entering through the… Theophylact of Ohrid c. 1055 – after 1107PG 126:965…to set forth the whole from one example the statement yet three days and nineveh shall be overthrown c signifies more mystically the destruction through the lord's three day burial of the wicked opposing kingdom that… Theodore of MopsuestiaPG 66:339…strongly that god did not command jonah simply to preach yet three days and nineveh shall be overthrown although the scripture appears to say this briefly but rather that he should also signify in a threatening… Basil of SeleuciaPG 85:165…he went to the city and he preached and said yet three days and nineveh shall be overthrown and the men of nineveh believed god and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the least… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:693…and nineveh shall be destroyed the men of nineveh however believed in god and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the least of them to the greatest and after a little and god saw… Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:627…speak falsely a h verse and the men of nineveh believed in god and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them h xxi the expression… Maximus the Confessor c. 580–662PG 90:703…detected as being subject to lesser or greater wickedness and the men of nineveh believed god and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloths from the least of them even to the greatest of them and… Theophylact of Ohrid c. 1055 – after 1107PG 126:945…to be better c vers and the men of nineveh believed in god and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them emphatically it is said… Basil of SeleuciaPG 85:165…said yet three days and nineveh shall be overthrown and the men of nineveh believed god and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the least of them even unto the greatest of them observe… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 17:501…thus the king of the Ninevites rent his garments and sat in ashes clothed in sackcloth, when he heard from Jonah the prophet about the destruction of Nineveh (Jon. iii, 6). Thus the last chief priest of the Jew… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 17:1031…ld even he himself will receive the knowledge of God and exhort all to penance." He inveighs most fiercely against this doctrine in his commentary on Jonas III, 6: "Otherwise, he says, if all rational creatures are equal,… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 64:425B…ce of God. For he says, "The word reached the king, and he rose from his throne and took off his robe, and wrapped himself in sackcloth, and sat on ashes" (Jon. III, 6). O wise king! He himself takes the lea… Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:627…the lord of the prophets d h verses and the word reached the king of nineveh and he arose from his throne and he took off his robe from him and put on sackcloth and sat… Maximus the Confessor c. 580–662PG 90:703…of them even to the greatest of them and the word reached the king of nineveh and he arose from his throne and he took his robe from off him and he covered himself with sackcloth… Theophylact of Ohrid c. 1055 – after 1107PG 126:947…in the saviour god himself have become god killers vers and the word came unto the king of nineveh and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe from him and put on sackcloth… Daniel Heinsius 1580-1655PG 43:1005…tōn and a trichinos one. And the Hebrew saq, which penitents put on, is of the latter, not the former genus, which is cilicium in Latin. Thus, Jonah 3:6, the king who was repenting, removed his cloak from him, a… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:51D…4. Let us see, therefore, how the Ninevites fasted, and how they were delivered from that wrath. "Let men and beasts, and sheep, and oxen not graze," he says (Jon. III, 7). What are you saying? Tell me; do even… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:597B…. Let us see, therefore, how the Ninevites fasted, and how they were delivered from that wrath. Let not men and beasts and sheep and oxen graze, he says (Jon. 3:7). What do you say, tell me? Do the irra… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:957A…us see, therefore, how the Ninevites fasted and by what reason they were freed from divine wrath. Man, he says, and beasts, sheep and oxen, let them not graze (Jon. 3:7). What, I ask, are you saying? Do even… Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:627…and it was proclaimed in nineveh by the king and by all his nobles saying let neither man nor beast nor oxen nor sheep taste anything nor let them feed nor drink water and men and… Irenaeus of Lyon c. 130–c. 202PG 7:941…concerning jonah just as the scripture says concerning them and they returned every one from his evil way and from the injustice which was in their hands saying who knows if god will repent and turn… Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:629…blameless fast for the sacred scripture has testified that each one turned from his evil way and from the iniquity that is in their hands and the action was both rational and sensible they believed that… Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1137…intently and with their whole soul and every one of them turned from his evil way and from the injustice that was in their hands for so god accepted their penance as the prophet subjoined god… Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 81:1735…did they offer supplications to god but also b each one returned from his evil way and from the iniquity that was in their hands saying ver who knows if god will turn and relent and… Maximus the Confessor c. 580–662PG 90:705…they cried out to the lord god earnestly and each one turned from his evil way and from the iniquity that was in their hands by men as i said we shall understand those who through… Gregory Palamas c. 1296–1359PG 151:371…the fury of his anger and we shall not perish each turned from his evil way and from the iniquity in their hands and they proclaimed a fast and clothed themselves in sackcloth from the greatest… Gregory Palamas c. 1296–1359PG 151:493…cried out constantly to the lord and turned themselves each one away from his evil way and from the iniquity of their hands saying who knows if god will repent and forgive and turn away from… OrigenesPG 16:2341…not hearkened nor inclined your ear to hear saying turn ye now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings and ye shall dwell in the land that the lord hath… OrigenesPG 16:2361…my servants the prophets rising early and sending i said turn now every one from his evil way and make your doings better and do not go after other gods to perform service to them and… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 47:299B…? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not" (Jon. III, 9, 10). But if barbarians and unlettered… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:617D…g the things done by them, and this while not knowing if it will be forgiven them. For what, they said, "Who knows if God will turn, and repent, and save us?" (Jon. 3:9). For they do not know to look to other… Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 81:1735…their hands saying ver who knows if god will turn and relent and turn away from his fierce anger and we shall not perish this is indeed the true goal of repentance for turn away he… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:171…evil way and from the iniquity that was in their hands saying who can tell if god will turn and forgive and will turn away from his fierce anger and we shall not perish and god… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 47:299…be entreated and turn from his fierce anger that we perish not and god saw their works that they turned from their evil way and god repented of the evil that he had said that he… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 53:247…secular cares and relying on help from above. For even the Ninevites, burdened by such a multitude of sins, because they performed a great and true repentance (Jon. 3.10), did not require more than the time of… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 61:425…m up. What, then, is this? God saw, he says, that everyone turned from his evil way, and repented of the malice which he had spoken to do to them (Jonah III, 10). He did not say that He saw fasting and sackcloth and ashe… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 64:433…they were changed and were not destroyed for god saw it says their works that they turned from their evil ways and he relented concerning the evil which he had spoken of doing to them oh… Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:631…the fact that even the labor of the beasts was prescribed vers and god saw their works that they turned from their evil ways and god repented of the evil which he had said he would… Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 81:1735…of character enjoyed the divine favor ver for god saw he says their works that they turned from their evil ways and god repented of the evil which he had said that he would do to… Maximus the Confessor c. 580–662PG 90:711…this says god saw their works speaking of course of the ninevites that they turned from their evil ways and god repented of the evil that he said he would do to them and he did… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:171…will turn away from his fierce anger and we shall not perish and god saw their works that they were turned from their evil way and god repented of the evil that he had said that… Theophylact of Ohrid c. 1055 – after 1107PG 126:951…in a similar way for there is wrath in his indignation vers and god saw their works that they had turned from their evil ways he did not look at their fasting but at their works… Basil of SeleuciaPG 85:167…her who laments and sends forth a conqueror for god he says saw their works that they turned from their evil ways and god repented concerning the evil which he promised to do unto them repentance…