CONTENTS
We have here a sad view of the mind of Jonah; the Lord's grace to Nineveh excites the Prophet's displeasure. he is reproved by the Lord under the figure of a gourd.
We have not a similar instance in scripture, of a minister of the Lord being displeased at the success of his labors; and it is hardly possible on common principles, to assign any cause. Did Jonah dread being found a false prophet more than being made an unsuccessful preacher? Reader! what a character doth Jonah here appear in? Pause over the view!