"He threatened the Ninevites with the destruction of their city within forty days, that is, unless they repented: they did repent, and were saved from ruin, God repenting of what he had threatened; which, though a change of his outward conduct towards them, he threatened them with, was no change of his will; for both their repentance, and their deliverance, were according to his unchangeable will, Jonah iii. 4, 10."
- John Gill, The Body of Divinity, Pg. 40
I once heard a sermon on this book. It was by a Lordshiper. Of course through the sermon the focus was that sinners are to repent from sin if they do not then God's wrath will come upon them. However, is this really what Jonah was speak about? I wonder if this elder knew the law and gospel distinction?
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