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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Jonah is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.

rest upon him,” is perhaps not wide of the mark. Jarchi to the same effect: “The Shekinah does not dwell out of the hind.” Though, as Theodoret observes, he well knew that the Lord of the universe was everywhere present, yet he supposed that it was only at Jerusalem he became apparent to men; ὑπολαμβάνων δὲ ό̓μως ἐν μόνη Ἱερουσαλὴμ αὐτὸν ποιεῖσθαι τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν.”—C. E.] The psychological motive of the flight is not mentioned. That which Jonah assigns (chap. 4:2), is hardly to be considered
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