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Jonah","Category: History - Religious","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF JONAS\n\nJONAS prophesied in the reign of JEREBOAM the second: as we learn from 4\nKings 14.25. To whom also he foretold his success in restoring all the\nborders of Israel. He was of GETH OPHER in the tribe of ZABULON, and\nconsequently of GALILEE: which confutes that assertion of the Pharisees,\nJohn 7.52, that no prophet ever rose out of GALILEE. He prophesied and\nprefigured in his own person the death and resurrection of CHRIST: and\nwas the only one among the prophets that was sent to preach to the\nGentiles.\n\n\nJonas Chapter 1\n\nJonas being sent to preach in Ninive, fleeth away by sea: a tempest\nriseth: of which he being found, by lot, to be the cause, is cast into\nthe sea, which thereupon is calmed.\n\n1:1. Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas, the son of Amathi, saying:\n\n1:2. Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: For the\nwickedness thereof is come up before me.\n\nNineve... The capital city of the Assyrian empire.\n\n1:3. And Jonas rose up to flee into Tharsis from the face of the Lord,\nand he went down to Joppe, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he\npaid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tharsis\nfrom the face of the Lord,\n\nTharsis... Which some take to be Tharsus of Cilicia, others to be\nTartessus of Spain, others to be Carthage.\n\n1:4. But the Lord sent a great wind to the sea: and a great tempest was\nraised in the sea, and the ship was in danger to be broken.\n\n1:5. And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried to their god: and\nthey cast forth the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to\nlighten it of them: and Jonas went down into the inner part of the ship,\nand fell into a deep sleep.\n\nA deep sleep... This is a lively image of the insensibility of sinners,\nfleeing from God, and threatened on every side with his judgments: and\nyet sleeping as if they were secure.\n\n1:6. And the ship master came to him and said to him: Why art thou fast\nasleep? rise up call upon thy God, if so be that God will think of us\nthat we may not perish.\n\n1:7. And they said every one to his fellow: Come and let us cast lots,\nthat we may know why this evil is upon us.  And they cast lots, and the\nlot fell upon Jonas.\n\n1:8. And they said to him: Tell us for what cause this evil is upon us,\nwhat is thy business? of what country art thou? and whither goest thou?\nor of what people art thou?\n\n1:9. And he said to them: I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, and the\nGod of heaven, who made both the sea and the dry land.\n\n1:10. And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him: Why hast\nthou done this? (For the men knew that he fled from the face of the\nLord: because he had told them.)\n\n1:11. And they said to him: What shall we do with thee, that the sea may\nbe calm to us? for the sea flowed and swelled.\n\n1:12. And he said to them: take me up, and cast me into the sea, and the\nsea shall be calm to you: for I know for my sake this great tempest is\nupon you.\n\n1:13. And the men rowed hard to return the land, but they were not able:\nbecause the sea tossed and swelled upon them.\n\n1:14. And they cried to the Lord, and said: We beseech thee, O Lord let\nus not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood:\nfor thou, oh Lord, hast done as it pleased thee.\n\n1:15. And they took Jonas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased\nfrom raging.\n\n1:16. And the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and sacrificed victims to\nthe Lord, and made vows.\n\nJonas Chapter 2\n\nJonas is swallowed up by a great fish: he prayeth with confidence in\nGod; and the fish casteth him out on the dry land.\n\n2:1. Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas\nwas in the belly of a fish for three days and three nights.\n\n2:2. And Jonas prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the\nfish.\n\n2:3. And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard\nme: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.\n\n2:4. And thou hast cast me forth into the deep, in the heart of the sea,\nand a flood hast compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have\npassed over me.\n\n2:5. And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I\nshall see the holy temple again.\n\n2:6. The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath\nclosed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.\n\n2:7. I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the\nearth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from\ncorruption, O Lord, my God.\n\n2:8. When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that\nmy prayer may come to thee, unto the holy temple.\n\n2:9. They that in vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.\n\n2:10. But I with the voice of praise will sacrifice to thee: I will pay\nwhatsoever I have vowed for my salvation to the Lord.\n\n2:11. And the Lord spoke to the fish: and it vomited out Jonas upon the\ndry land.\n\nSpoke to the fish... God's speaking to the fish, was nothing else but\nhis will, which all things obey.\n\nJonas Chapter 3\n\nJonas is sent again to preach in Ninive. Upon their fasting and\nrepentance, God recalleth the sentence by which they were to be\ndestroyed.\n\n\n3:1. And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time saying:\n\n3:2. Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the\npreaching that I bid thee.\n\n3:3. And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the\nLord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.\n\nOf three days' journey... By the computation of some ancient historians,\nNinive was about fifty miles round: so that to go through all the chief\nstreets and public places was three days' journey.\n\n3:4. And Jonas began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he\ncried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed.\n\n3:5. And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast,\nand put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.\n\n3:6. And the word came to the king of Ninive: and he rose up out of his\nthrone, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed in sackcloth,\nand sat in ashes.\n\n3:7. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive, from the\nmouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor\nbeasts, oxen, nor sheep taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink\nwater.\n\n3:8. And let men and beasts be covered with sackcloth, and cry to the\nLord with all their strength, and let them turn every one from his evil\nway, and from the iniquity that is in their hands.\n\n3:9. Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from\nhis fierce anger, and we shall not perish?\n\n3:10. And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil\nway: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he\nwould do to them, and he did it not.\n\nJonas Chapter 4\n\n4:1. And Jonas was exceedingly troubled, and was angry:\n\nWas exceedingly troubled, etc... His concern was lest he should pass for\na false prophet; or rather, lest God's word, by this occasion, might\ncome to be slighted and disbelieved.\n\n4:2. And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not\nthis what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went\nbefore to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and\nmerciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.\n\n4:3. And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is\nbetter for me to die than to live.\n\n4:4. And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?\n\n4:5. Then Jonas went out of the city, and sat toward the east side of\nthe city: and he made himself a booth there, and he sat under it in the\nshadow, till he might see what would befall the city.\n\n4:6. And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of\nJonas, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was\nfatigued): and Jonas was exceeding glad of the ivy.\n\nThe Lord God prepared an ivy... Hederam. In the Hebrew it is Kikajon,\nwhich some render a gourd: others a palmerist, or palma Christi.\n\n4:7. But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following\nday: and it struck the ivy and it withered.\n\n4:8. And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning\nwind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the\nheat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is\nbetter for me to die than to live.\n\n4:9. And the Lord said to Jonas: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be\nangry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death.\n\n4:10. And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou\nhast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and\nin one night perished.\n\n4:11. And shall I not spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are\nmore than a hundred and twenty thousand persons, that know not how to\ndistinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 37: Jonas: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":1845}