have been the same place with Jatapeta, a town remarkable for having sustained, under the conduct of Josephus, a siege against the Roman army. It was situated in the land of Zabulon, near Siphorim, towards Tiberias, where was the canton of Ophir, or Hepher. St. Jerom informs us, that the prophet's sepulchre was shown there in his time, and there the natives still believe it to exist. It must be remarked, that the miracle by which God punished the unbecoming flight of Jonah was, agreeably to the figurative arrangements of the Old Testament, rendered symbolical of an event that was to occur under the New. The prophet, in this instance

a sign of Christ, was swallowed up by a great fish, as our Saviour was admitted into the jaws of death; and for a similar continuance of time, both were detained three days and three nights entombed in the grave. The objections that have been made to this miracle are certainly unworthy of attention, since considerations of what may or may not be probable are clearly not applicable to works which exceed the measure of human power, and deviate from the course of human events, and which, indeed, in their proper definition, are described as unprecedented.. The miraculous preservation and deliverance of Jonal was surely not more remarkable

descriptive of almighty power than were the multiplied wonders in the wilderness, the protection of Daniel, or the resurrection of the widow's son; all were positive violations of the general rules of nature.

MICAH.

MICAH calls himself a Morasthite, and is supposed to have been a native of Morasthi, a village situated near the city of Eleutheropolis, in the southern part of Judah; a place distinguished by St. Jerom from Mareshah, mentioned in this book, and in Joshua. Micah speaks only of the kings of Judah; and he prophesied in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and

Hezekiah, contemporary with whom were Pekah and Hosea, the two last kings of Israel. Micah then began to prophesy soon after Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, and Amos; and he prophesied between A. M. 3246, when Jonathan began to reign, and A. M. 3305, when Hezekiah died: but probably not during the whole of that period. It is related by Epiphanius, and the Greek writers who copied him, that Micah was thrown from a precipice and killed by Jehoram, son of Ahab, whom he erroneously calls King of Judah, but who really was King of Israel, and whose grandson Jehoram lived at least 130 years before Micah. But these writers seem to have confounded

Micah with Micaiah the son of Imlah, who flourished in Israel, and prophesied evil of Ahab; and Micah does not appear to have suffered martyrdom, as may be collected from a passage in Jeremiah, but probably died in peace under the reign of the good king Hezekiah. St. Jerom says, that his tomb was at Morasthi, and converted into a church in his time.

NAHUM.

NAHUм describes himself as an Elkoshite: which some have considered as a patronymic expression, conceiving it to imply his being a descendant of Elkosha; but which is generally supposed to intimate that