“For the same who had been their accuser, and who had said, that "the cry of their wickedness hath ascended up even to heaven," himself again bears testimony of an opposite kind, by saying, "God saw that every one departed from their own evil ways." He does not say, from fornication, or adultery, or theft, but from the…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — HOMILIES CONCERNING THE STATUES 20
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2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
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1Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
— Jonah 1:2 —
3But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
4But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.