Jonah
historical figure · 7 works · 10 mentions · 11 anchored passages
a certain spirited prophet
in the texts
Stromata
Prophet who prayed inside the whale and prophesied to the Ninevites, an exemplar of faith under trial.
he will pray, like Jonah, when swallowed by the whale;
and faith will restore him, prophesying to the Ninevites;
'" And Malachi the prophet downright shows God saying:
Adversus Marcionem
The prophet who fled to Tarshish rather than preach to Nineveh, and whose own words are cited to characterize God's mercy.
"Therefore I made haste to flee away to Tarshish, because I knew that you are merciful and pitying, patient and of much mercy, and repenting of malices.
You have in Jonah the very example of mercy, which he furnished to the Ninevites entreating him;
De Carnis Resurrectione
Prophet swallowed by a great fish and disgorged unharmed after three days.
I think, moreover, that a fit document of this divine power too is Jonah, when, uncorrupted in both substances, flesh and soul, he is unrolled from the belly of the fish.
that Jonah, devoured by the beast of the sea, in whose belly shipwrecks were being digested, after three days is spat out unharmed;
De Corona
Biblical prophet who sailed on a ship, cited as precedent for using ships despite their attributed pagan origin.
But even if Minerva first built a ship, I shall see Jonah and the apostles sailing.
De Fuga in Persecutione
Unnamed but clearly identified prophet (Jonah) who fled from God by sea and was swallowed by a great fish.
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;
De Oratione
Jonah, whose prayer from within the whale reached heaven despite being unheard by any human.
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?
De Pudicitia
Prophet whose story is cited regarding penitence offered to heathens.
Did Jonah then for this reason think penitence not necessary for the heathen Ninevites, when he quibbled in the office of preaching?