Wesley Corpus

The cities - All the cities which were once their own. Saviours - Deliverers, literally the leaders of those captive troops, who shall come up from Babylon, such as Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Mystically, Christ and his apostles, and other preachers of the gospel. To judge - To avenge Israel upon Edom. The Lord's - The God of Israel, Jehovah, shall be honoured, obeyed, and worshipped by all. Probably Jonah himself was the penman of this book. In 2 Kings 14:25, we find, that he was of Gath - hepher in Galilee, a city that elongs to the tribe of Zebulon. We find also, that he was a essenger of mercy to Israel in the reign of Jeroboam the second. e have here a remarkable instance of God's mercy, toward repenting inners. And in Jonah we have a most remarkable type, of our ord's burial and resurrection.