Book of Jonah
Scripture
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 extended 1 citation
References the Ninevites' repentance in response to a 'brief proclamation', matching the Jonah narrative.
yours, if you will only to believe and to follow the brief proclamation, obeying which the Ninevites, by genuine repentance, exchanged the expected capture for the fair salvation.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 citation
Cited as showing pagan sailors' partial recognition of the divine.
" And Jonah, himself also a prophet, hints at the same thing by these words:
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 citation
The Nineveh episode is invoked as scriptural authority for mitigating collective punishment.
Thus when the Ninevites were threatened with utter destruction, on account of their grievous crimes, a mitigation of the sentence was allowed, in compassion to the many thousands, who were of an age incapable of making a distinction between right and wrong.
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Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 1 citation
Jonah is explicitly named and his narrative used as evidence for the Creator's mercy.
You have in Jonah the very example of mercy, which he furnished to the Ninevites entreating him;
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De Fuga in Persecutione Tertullian 1 citation
Directly references the narrative of the prophet's flight and time in the belly of the great fish, without naming him, but unmistakably drawn from Jonah.
A certain spirited prophet too had fled the Lord, had crossed over from Joppa to Tarshish, as if he could ferry away even from God;
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De ieiunio adversus psychicos Tertullian 1 citation
The Nineveh fasting narrative from Jonah is directly recounted as precedent.
Through this sequel of mourning and through abstinence, even that sinful city Nineveh is delivered from the destruction foretold.
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De Oratione Tertullian 1 citation
The narrative of Jonah's prayer from the fish is directly invoked as scriptural precedent for the theme of God hearing the heart.
How then could the prayer of Jonah, from the depths of the whale's belly, through the bowels of so great a beast, from the very abysses, through so great a mass of sea, make its way out to heaven?
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