Commentary on Jonah

Jerome (342–420)

Commentaries on the Book of Jonah by Saint Jerome of Stridon, Priest

Latin Text from public domain Migne Editors, Patrologiae Cursus Completus.

Translation from Patristic Bible Commentary website .

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Prologue

About three years have now passed since I first started writing the commentaries on the five Prophets, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and Haggai. Detained by another work, I was not able to finish what I had undertaken. For I was writing a book on famous men and two volumes against Jovinian, an apology and an essay on 'the best way to translate', which was addressed to Pammachius, two books to or about Nepotian, and other works which it would be lengthy to recount. Therefore I retake up my commentaries with Jonah after such a long absence. Jonah, a type of Saviour, who prefiguring the resurrection of the Lord by spending "three days and three nights in the belly of a whale" [Mt. 12:40], was able to attain the first ardour so that we might deserve the arrival of the Holy Spirit to us. If indeed Jonah is to be translated as 'dove', and if the dove can be seen as the Holy Spirit, then we can also interpret the Dove as…

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