Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Jonah: The Irresponsible Prophet

Especially if Jonah's assumption that God was out to kill him was mistaken (as I suggested in the previous chapter), here Jonah is glossing over any personal responsibility for his brush with death by affirming the agency of everyone but himself.

--Daniel C. Timmer, A Gracious and Compassionate God: Mission, Salvation and Spirituality in the Book of Jonah (New Studies in Biblical Theology; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2011), 85.

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