1 But God is everywhere; Tarshish he never reached.
2 Shipmates, God has laid but one hand upon you; both his hands press upon me.
3 From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favourable winds.
4 This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it.
5 With this sin of disobedience in him, Jonah still further flouts at God, by seeking to flee from Him.
6 From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt.
7 It can't last for ever, thank God, and his Ramadan only comes once a year; and I don't believe it's very punctual then.
8 And how pleasing to God was this conduct in Jonah, is shown in the eventual deliverance of him from the sea and the whale.
9 He thinks that a ship made by men will carry him into countries where God does not reign, but only the Captains of this earth.
10 And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
11 He leaves all his deliverance to God, contenting himself with this, that spite of all his pains and pangs, he will still look towards His holy temple.
12 But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.
13 There now came a lull in his look, as he silently turned over the leaves of the Book once more; and, at last, standing motionless, with closed eyes, for the moment, seemed communing with God and himself.
14 And now how gladly would I come down from this mast-head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads ME that other and more awful lesson which Jonah teaches to ME, as a pilot of the living God.
15 The eager mariners but ask him who he is, and where from; whereas, they not only receive an answer to those questions, but likewise another answer to a question not put by them, but the unsolicited answer is forced from Jonah by the hard hand of God that is upon him.
16 How being an anointed pilot-prophet, or speaker of true things, and bidden by the Lord to sound those unwelcome truths in the ears of a wicked Nineveh, Jonah, appalled at the hostility he should raise, fled from his mission, and sought to escape his duty and his God by taking ship at Joppa.
17 As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him along 'into the midst of the seas,' where the eddying depths sucked him ten thousand fathoms down, and 'the weeds were wrapped about his head,' and all the watery world of woe bowled over him.
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