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God's Expansive Compassion
The book ends by contrasting Jonah's petty grief over a plant with God's profound care for an entire city. Commentators explain that God's mercy extends beyond just repentant adults to include over 120,000 innocent children and even "much cattle." This reveals a God whose compassion is vastly more expansive and tender than our own, encompassing all of His creation.
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Jonah
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Albert Barnes
On Jonah 4:11
18th Century
Theologian
Should I not spare? — literally “have pity” and so “spare.” God waives for the time the fact of the repentance of Nineveh, and speaks of tho…
Charles Ellicott
On Jonah 4:11
19th Century
Bishop
More than ...—This number of infants, 120,000, according to the usual reckoning, gives a population of 600,000.
Charles Spurgeon
On Jonah 4:11
19th Century
Preacher
That great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand;
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John Calvin
On Jonah 4:10–11
16th Century
Theologian
Here God explains the design he had in suddenly raising up the gourd, and then in causing it to perish or wither through the gnawing of a worm; it …
John Gill
On Jonah 4:11
17th Century
Pastor
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city ?
&c.] See (Jonah 1:2) (3:3) ; what is such a gourd or p…
Matthew Henry
On Jonah 4:5–11
17th Century
Minister
Jonah went out of the city, yet remained nearby, as if he expected and desired its overthrow. Those who have fretful, uneasy spirits often create t…