righteous through faith (Gen 15:6), and sometimes he displays this righteousness by his saintly conduct and words, but at other times his old sinful nature prevails, and he behaves unfaithfully (as with St. Paul in Romans 7) and thus needs to repent. This is the view of Jonah taken by Luther. He compares Jonah to Elijah, whom James describes this way: “Elijah was a man with the same nature as us” (James 5:17). Luther understands Jonah to be like Elijah, indeed like every Christian.52 He writes of