Jonah 1:3 Douay-Rheims

And Jonas rose up to flee into Tharsis from the face of the Lord, and he went down to Joppe, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tharsis from the face of the Lord.

Gregory of Nazianzus

A.D. 329–390 Patristic

But there he calls upon God, and, marvellous as it is, on the third day he, like Christ, is delivered.… yet, in my own case, what could be said, what defence could be made, if I longer remained restive, and rejected the yoke of ministry, which, though I know not whether to call it light or heavy, had at any rate been laid upon me.… On this account I had much toilsome consideration to discover my duty, being set in the midst betwixt two fears, of which the one held me back, the other urged me on. For a long while I was at a loss between them, and after wavering from side to side, and, like a current driven by inconstant winds, inclining first in this direction, then in that, I at last yielded to the stronger, and the fear of disobedience overcame me.

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A.D. 389 · on Jonah 1:3 (In Defense of His Flight to Pontus, Oration 2:109-12)

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