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| Chapter CVII.—The same is taught from the history of Jonah.
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Chapter CVII.—The same is taught from
the history of Jonah.
“And that He would rise again on the
third day after the crucifixion, it is written2359
in the memoirs that some of your nation, questioning Him, said,
‘Show us a sign;’ and He replied to them, ‘An evil and
adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and no sign shall be given
them, save the sign of Jonah.’ And since He spoke this obscurely,
it was to be understood by the audience that after His crucifixion He
should rise again on the third day. And He showed that your generation
was more wicked and more adulterous than the city of Nineveh; for the
latter, when Jonah preached to them, after he had been cast up on the
third day from the belly of the great fish, that after three (in other
versions, forty)2360
| 2360 In the
LXX. only three days are recorded, though in the Hebrew and other
versions forty. The parenthetic clause is probably the work of a
transcriber. | days they should all perish, proclaimed a fast
of all creatures, men and beasts, with sackcloth, and with earnest
lamentation, with true repentance from the heart, and turning away from
unrighteousness, in the belief that God is merciful and kind to all who
turn from wickedness; so that the king of that city himself, with his
nobles also, put on sackcloth and remained fasting and praying, and
obtained their request that the city should not be overthrown. But when
Jonah was grieved that on the (fortieth) third day, as he proclaimed, the
city was not overthrown, by the dispensation of a gourd2361
| 2361 Read κικυῶνα for σικυῶνα. |
springing up from the earth for him, under which he sat
and
was shaded from the heat (now the gourd had sprung up suddenly, and Jonah
had neither planted nor watered it, but it had come up all at once to
afford him shade), and by the other dispensation of its withering away,
for which Jonah grieved, [God] convicted him of being unjustly displeased
because the city of Nineveh had not been overthrown, and said,
‘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 shall I not spare Nineveh, the great city, wherein dwell
more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their
right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?’2362
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