I believe I’ve copped before to being simpleminded. There’s entertainment all around when you’re simpleminded.
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This is the only time in the book that Jonah is happy about anything. Needless to say, it won’t last.
Jonah’s gourd probably isn’t a gourd at all, but a mistranslated castor-oil plant. “Gourd of the LORD” is more fun to say, though.
At this point, as he hopes against hope that God will change his mind and destroy Nineveh anyway, I like to imagine Jonah as Beavis, shaking his clenched fists in front of him: “Smite them! Smite them! Yeah! Uh, that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…