y <strong>the</strong> prophet Jonah, and had great successes afterward, when "God had saved <strong>the</strong> Israelites by <strong>the</strong> hand <strong>of</strong> Jeroboam, <strong>the</strong> son <strong>of</strong> Joash," 2 Kings 14:27; which encouragement by Jonah, and great successes, are equally observable in <strong>Josephus</strong>, and in <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r copies. 2. When Jonah is said in our Bibles <strong>to</strong> have gone <strong>to</strong> Tarshish, Jonah 1:3, <strong>Josephus</strong> unders<strong>to</strong>od it that he went <strong>to</strong> Tarsus in Cilicia, or <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> Mediterranean Sea, upon which Tarsus lay; so that he does not appear <strong>to</strong> have read <strong>the</strong> text, 1 Kings 22:48, as our copies do, that ships <strong>of</strong> Tarshish could lie at Ezion-geber, upon <strong>the</strong> Red Sea. But as <strong>to</strong> <strong>Josephus</strong>'s assertion, that Jonah's fish was carried by <strong>the</strong> strength <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> current, upon a nean, it is by no means an improbable determination in <strong>Josephus</strong>. 3. This ancient piece <strong>of</strong> religion, <strong>of</strong> supposing <strong>the</strong>re was great sin where <strong>the</strong>re was great misery, and <strong>of</strong> casting lots <strong>to</strong> discover great sinners, not only among <strong>the</strong> Israelites, but among <strong>the</strong>se hea<strong>the</strong>n mariners, seems a remarkable remains <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ancient tradition which prevailed <strong>of</strong> old over all mankind, that I Providence used <strong>to</strong> interpose visibly in all human affairs, and s<strong>to</strong>rm, as far as <strong>the</strong> Euxine Sea, it is no way impossible; and since <strong>the</strong> s<strong>to</strong>rm might have driven <strong>the</strong> ship, while Jonah was in it never <strong>to</strong> bring, or at least not long <strong>to</strong> continue, no<strong>to</strong>rious judge, near <strong>to</strong> that Euxine Sea, and since in three more days, while but for no<strong>to</strong>rious sins, which <strong>the</strong> most ancient Book <strong>of</strong> he was in <strong>the</strong> fish's belly, that current might bring him <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> Job shows <strong>to</strong> have been <strong>the</strong> state <strong>of</strong> mankind for about <strong>the</strong> Assyrian coast, and since withal that coast could bring him former three thousand years <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world, till <strong>the</strong> days <strong>of</strong> Job nearer <strong>to</strong> Nineveh than could any coast <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Mediterranian and Moses. 4. This account <strong>of</strong> an earthquake at Jerusalem at <strong>the</strong> very same time when Uzziah usurped <strong>the</strong> priest's <strong>of</strong>fice, and went in<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> sanctuary <strong>to</strong> burn incense, and <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> consequences <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> earthquake, is entirely wanting in our o<strong>the</strong>r copies, though it be exceeding like <strong>to</strong> a prophecy <strong>of</strong> Jeremiah, now in Zechariah 14:4, 5; in which prophecy mention is made <strong>of</strong> "fleeing from that earthquake, as <strong>the</strong>y fled from this earthquake in <strong>the</strong> 49
days <strong>of</strong> Uzziah king <strong>of</strong> Judah;" so that <strong>the</strong>re seems <strong>to</strong> have been some considerable resemblance between <strong>the</strong>se his<strong>to</strong>rical and prophetical earthquakes. 50
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