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Jonah 4:2

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2 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

Commentary

 

Hurt

  

'To hurt,' as mentioned in Revelation 6:6, signifies violation and profanation.

In Revelation 9:4, this signifies perverting the truths and goods of the church by crafty rationalizations from sensory scientific facts and fallacies.

'To be hurt of the second death,' as mentioned in Revelation 2:11, signifies sinking under evils and falsities from hell.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 9 [4]; Apocalypse Revealed 316)


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Revelation 9:4

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4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have God's seal on their foreheads.