And Jonah was displeased exceedingly - It was an untempered zeal. The prophet himself records it as such, and how he was reproved for it. He…

But it displeased Jonah. —The Hebrew (it was evil to) is stronger. The prophet was vexed and irritated.

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But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

A fine prophet this was! Jonah was a man of a somewhat difficult dispos…

Jerome commends this grief of Jonah and compares it to the holy zeal of Paul, who wished himself to be an anathema for his brothers ([Reference Rom…

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry .]
Jonah was "mirabilis homo", as one calls him, an "amaz…

What all the saints rejoice in and praise, Jonah makes a subject of complaint against God; as if showing mercy were an imperfection of the divine n…