Abarbanel on Jonah 1:1:10
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Work: Abarbanel on Jonah
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Abarbanel on Jonah — CC0 English partial community translation
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And it isn't fitting to explain "call upon it because there wickedness has come before" that hte point was to inform the city of the wickedness rather the point was to tell that Gd had decreed that they would be overturned rather it is translated like (Isiah 58:1) to call out loud and not be silent. To rebuke them and frighten them and this is because their wickedness has come up before Gd. And this wasn't in order to have Providence on them with Divine Providence like Israel and to straighten their deeds and to save them from plauge but rather because they were decreed by Gd to destroy the t…
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- Abarbanel on Jonah — Sefaria Community Translation
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