Jonah 4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city… The Ninevite little ones effectually, though unwittingly, interceded with God for the preservation of Nineveh. And are not little children still unconscious intercessors with God? 1. By their innocence. They have not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression. 2. By their dependence. Their dependence on God makes them the dearer to God; their dependence on their parents makes their parents the dearer to him. 5. By their undeveloped moral possibilities. What a work in the earth they may do for God! "I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said" - Ninevite babe and suckling - "spare me, teach me," and then in the future "send me." - G.T.C. Parallel Verses KJV: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? |
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