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Jonah 1:1 - Exposition

Now ; or, and . Some have argued from this commencement that the Book of Jonah is a fragment, the continuation of a larger work; but it is a common formulary, linking together revelations and histories, and is continually used in the Old Testament at the beginning of independent works; e.g. Joshua 1:1 ; 1:1 ; 1 Samuel 1:1 ; Esther 1:1 ; Ezekiel 1:1 . Jonah the son of Amittai ( 2 Kings 14:25 ). (See Introduction, § II )

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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Jonah 1:1 - Exposition

Jonah 1:1 - Exposition

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