[Salvation]

Unabridged title: If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there shall thy hand lead me. A Meditation on the Story of Jonah

[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[Grateful2God]

His scoffing and defiant attitude likely result from hatred or excessive nationalism. Nineveh was the capital of Syria, the mortal enemy of Israel. Jonah instinctively knows that if they repent of their sinfulness, they will grow stronger. Rather than trusting God, he brazenly disobeys, foolishly thinking he can outrun God.

Jonah is kind of a prototype of the brother of the Prodigal Son. He doesn't really want to prophesize to the Ninevites; gets ticked off when they convert: I didn't know about the political points, he just sort of didn't want them saved and didn't want to be proved wrong. I wonder how he would have felt if they had been destroyed...