3  Jonah's mission renewed and executed, Jon 3:1-4.
The humiliation and reformation of the Ninevites, Jon 3:5-9.
Their sentence revoked, Jon 3:10.

3:3 Exceeding great - The greatest city of the known world at that day, it was then in its flourishing state greater than Babylon, whose compass was three hundred eighty - five furlongs, but Nineveh was in compass, four hundred and eighty. It is said, her walls were an hundred foot in height, her walls broad enough for three coaches to meet, and safely pass by each other; that it had fifteen hundred towers on its walls, each two hundred foot high, and one million, four hundred thousand men employed for eight years to build it. Of three days journey - To walk round the walls, allowing twenty miles to each day's journey.

3:4 Shall be overthrown - The threat is express. But there was a reserve with God, on condition of repentance.

3:5 From the greatest - Great and small, rich and poor.

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7:29 But this I say, brethren - With great confidence. The time of our abode here is short. It plainly follows, that even they who have wives be as serious, zealous, active, dead to the world, as devoted to God, as holy in all manner of conversation, as if they had none - By so easy a transition does the apostle slide from every thing else to the one thing needful; and, forgetting whatever is temporal, is swallowed up in eternity.

7:30  And they that weep, as if they wept not - "Thoughsorrowful, yet always rejoicing." They that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not - Tempering their joy with godly fear. They that buy, as if they possessed not - Knowing themselves to be only stewards, not proprietors.

7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it - Not seeking happiness in it, but in God: using every thing therein only in such a manner and degree as most tends to the knowledge and love of God. For the whole scheme and fashion of this world - This marrying, weeping, rejoicing, and all the rest, not only will pass, but now passeth away, is this moment flying off like a shadow.

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1:14  Mat 4:12.

1:15 The time is fulfilled - The time of my kingdom, foretold by Daniel, expected by you, is fully come.

1:16  Mat 4:18; Luk 5:1.

1:18 Straightway leaving their nets, they followed him - From this time they forsook their employ, and constantly attended him.Happy they who follow Christ at the first call!