Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Jonah 1:6
DISCOURSE: 1198JONAH REPROVED BY THE MARINERSJohn 1:6. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.PERHAPS in all the sacred records there is not to be found a more strange and inconsistent character than the Prophet Jonah. That he was on the whole a good man, we have every reason to believe: but his spirit was on many occasions so contrary to what we might have expected to... read more
Sermon Bible Commentary - Jonah 1:17
John 1:17 We have no external history of the days spent by the prophet in his living grave. Neither he nor anyone else can tell how far he travelled, how long he rested, what were the aspects of the scenery, how many "small and great beasts" were met on the journey that strange but fruitful journey "through the paths of the seas." But we have a very intense and clear history of his inward life. I. There was evidently a great and sudden quickening of consciousness. The man who speaks in this... read more