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The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
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Verse 5. God. They were convinced that he had wrought such wonders in the person of Jonas, with a desire of their welfare, particularly as he allowed them some delay. Accordingly they did penance for about forty days, and their conversion was so sincere, that Christ proposes it to his disciples. Matthew 12:41. Calmet.—Thus “the city was overturned in its perverse manners.” Saint Augustine de civ. Dei. xxi. 24. and Psalms 50.—They were at an end, and the city was renovated. Bible.
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