you did not labor, … which came into being in a night, and perished in a night. And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?” The question to the reader is this: does God have a divine privilege of “repentance” when in the face of the announced judgment humans do penance—and this now for the first time applied to Gentiles? As so often, Benno Jacob (Das erste Buch der
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