 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 should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot...  Lowe's Edinburgh magazine - Page 4621847Full view - About this book
 | George Washington Bethune - Children - 1866 - 230 pages
...the disappointed prophet, says : " Should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left ? " by which is meant infants. What we are particularly to remark, in these two citations, is... | |
 | Elizabeth Charles - 1866 - 488 pages
...following him, reproaching him, and saying, ' And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ?' Father says that means the babies. Think of babies and little children playing about those... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 602 pages
...Jonah : ' Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey,' and therein were ' more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle' (Jonah iii. 8 ; iv. 11). These are incidental, yet are they valuable... | |
 | Great Britain - 1899 - 974 pages
...night, and perished in a night ; and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left ; and also much cattle ? " Observe that last touch of tenderness. St. Paul, reared in the Rabbinic... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - 1866 - 190 pages
...the disappointed prophet, says : " Should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left?" by which is meant infants. What we are particularly to remark, in these two citations, is the... | |
 | John Kitto - 1867 - 482 pages
...perished in a night : and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein there are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much cattle?' Thus ends the book of Jonah. We are not told how this remonstrance wrought... | |
 | Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson - Christian literature, Early - 1867 - 486 pages
...night, and perished in a night. And shall not I 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?'3 CIIAP. evIII. — TJie resurrection of Christ did not convert the... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 482 pages
...and perished in a night : u And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle ? MICAH I. THE word of the LORD that came to Micah, the Morasthite,... | |
 | Joseph Fernandez - Bible - 1868 - 278 pages
...to be angry for the gourd ? And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much cattle." Micah prophesied during the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekian, kings... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1868 - 598 pages
...moves his heart to say, as erst of Nineveh, " Should I not spare that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left ?" The work is commended by the claim of PATRIOTISM. It has been said that the highest life is... | |
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