 | George Rogers - Universalism - 1843 - 372 pages
...night ; And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand souls that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle." (Jonah iv. 10, 11.) The prophet, it seems, had been more painfully affected about the perishing of... | |
 | Gabriel Josipovici - Religion - 1990 - 376 pages
...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...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? (Jonah 4:10-11) It is as though God himself had a need to utter. Not just to outer himself by creating... | |
 | Erich Fromm - Political Science - 1990 - 388 pages
...The God who speaks to Jonah, feeling compassion "with 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" speaks with the voice of the all-forgiving mother. The same polarity between the fatherly and motherly... | |
 | Rabbeinu Yonah - Religion - 1967 - 406 pages
..."the spirit of the beast," for it is impelled by physical desire, as is the beast, as it is written "...that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle" (Jonah 4 : 11). And the soul of the righteous is referred to as "the spirit of man," as it is said,... | |
 | Erich Fromm - Philosophy - 1990 - 278 pages
...night. And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand people that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?" God's answer to Jonah is to be understood symbolically. God explains to Jonah that the essence of love... | |
 | Jay Newman - Freedom of religion - 1991 - 249 pages
...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...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?" 24 Paul van Buren has spoken well in reminding us of the continuing importance of the Jewish people,... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...1:22 92 ... and should not I have pity on 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? Jonah 4:11 93 And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much... | |
 | Richard Swinburne - 1992 - 250 pages
...provided shadow for him, but was destroyed by an east wind — and so God said to him, 'Should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than...thousand persons that cannot discern between their left hand and their right hand; and also much cattle?' (4: n). Now the ancient world was hardly unfamiliar... | |
 | Edgar Heilbronner, Jack D. Dunitz - Chemistry - 1993 - 172 pages
...triangle. Coulomb explosion method for determining the triangular structure ofH*3. VII. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle. Jonah, Chapter 4 La Droite et la Gauche, c'est pas du tout la meme chose. Pierre Man mix rp 1 he biblical... | |
 | Amos Funkenstein - Religion - 2023 - 420 pages
...the golden calf. Like God himself, the true prophet has mercy on "more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle" (Jon. 4:11). Here, at the conclusion of the story, we also find the technique of inverted analogies... | |
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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 sixscore thousand persons that cannot... 
