The Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 3:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Missions to the heathen.

1. The heathen are capable of salvation.

2. God purposes their salvation.

3. The Jews were the divinely appointed first preachers of salvation to the Gentile heathens.

Jewish Jonah, the first of the prophets, was sent to heathen Nineveh. A real example thin of the genius of the gospel." And the Jewish apostles were sent to preach Jesus Christ to "every creature? He died for all!—G.T.C.

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