 | 1841
...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 ?"t If> then, from Jonah's former deliverances, we have gathered faith, let us be warned by his example,... | |
 | Church history - 1839 - 868 pages
...infants in it, and much cattle. " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein arc more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between...right hand and their left, and also much cattle?" Thus, then, mercy to the brute creation is enforced by every principle of humanity and natural justice,... | |
 | William Youatt - Animal rights - 1839 - 238 pages
...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?" If considerations of such a kind could have power in averting the destruction of Nineveh ; if the lives... | |
 | James Macaulay - Animal welfare - 1839 - 144 pages
...from its guilty inhabitants. " And shall 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?" — Jonah iv. 11. § 18. Many other reasons for humanity might be... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1839 - 966 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 T1IEIE LEFT ?"— Jonah iv. 9, 10, 11. PAIN affects us, as it comes near to us. The war or famine,... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 pages
...slight suffering), 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 ?"* Now, let me ask, can we, after such a declaration as this, believe that God could ever issue unconditional... | |
 | Frederick William Faber - Church - 1840 - 212 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 hand, and also much cattle 2 ?" Lastly, we come to a passage in which all the others seem to meet,... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...wall of defence. The prophet Jonah describes Nineveh, as " 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." In this passage the mention of cattle clearly intimates that pastures... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1840 - 540 pages
...and evil, is an expression that denotes infancy. Thus in Nineveh it is said there were " more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and left hand," commonly supposed to denote infants. Jonah iv. 2. Comp. Deut. i. 39. The meaning is, that... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning - Christian union - 1842 - 396 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 hand ; and also much cattle ?" 1 — can we doubt, I say, that He who chose out those people by... | |
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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... 
