Jonah
quoted 8 times by 6 works · held by the library
also in the atlas: Jonah the figure
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
2 reported · 6 carried
3 neutral 2 extendedin the voice of the sailors 1 , the ship's captain 1
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in the voice of the ship's captain
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 neutral 2 citations
The captain's question and Jonah's status as prophet form a dialogue exchange.
" And Jonah, himself also a prophet, hints at the same thing by these words:
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Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 1 neutral 2 citations
The Book of Jonah is quoted both for the narration of God's repentance toward Nineveh and for Jonah's own explanation of God's mercy.
"Behold," you say, "I observe it as criminating in the case of the Ninevites, the scripture of Jonah saying, And the Lord repented of the malice which He had said He would do to them, and did it not.
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 extended 1 citation
Corresponds to the Jonah citation identified in p-7055ba.
rather we still hold to the zeal that is possible for us, knowing that he too who was swallowed by the sea-monster, because he did not despair of himself but cried out to the Lord, was counted worthy of salvation.
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 extended 1 citation
References the Ninevites' repentance narrative from Jonah as a model.
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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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 citation
Citation of unknown (biblical author)'s Book of Jonah is anchored to the paragraphs where it is invoked.
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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De Oratione Tertullian 1 citation
The narrative of Jonah's prayer is cited and reported in substance as scriptural authority 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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