 | Royal Society of Canada - Humanities - 1887 - 580 pages
...gourd is thus set forth : " 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 ? " That the Ninevites and the ancient dwellers on the Euphrates and the Tigris were a right-handed... | |
 | J. Sidlow Baxter, James Sidlow Baxter - Religion - 1986 - 1848 pages
...to "much cattle" in Nineveh is therefore easily understandable. The mention, in that same verse, of "six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand," means that there were some hundred and twenty thousand infants there alone. From this it... | |
 | Pope John Paul I - Christianity - 2001 - 292 pages
...night and perished in a night: And 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 hand; and also much cattle.' The theme of universalism—which is also very clear in the prophecies... | |
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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... 
