God has vindicated His love to the jealousy of those who thought that it was theirs alone. And we are left with this grand vague vision of the immeasurable city, with its multitude of innocent children and cattle, and God’s compassion brooding over all.
[1551] Deut. xviii. 21, 22.
[1552] The Hebrew may be translated either, first, _Doest thou well to be angry?_ or second, _Art thou very angry?_ Our versions both prefer the _first_, though they put the _second_ in the margin. The LXX. take the _second_. That the second is the right one is not only proved by its greater suitableness, but by Jonah’s answer to the question, _I am very angry, yea, even unto death_.
[1553] Heb. _the city_.
[1554] קִיקָיון, the Egyptian kiki, the Ricinus or Palma Christi. See above, p. 498, n. 1473.
[1555] Heb. adds _to save him from his evil_, perhaps a gloss.
[1556] Heb. _it_.
[1557] חֲרִישִׁית. The Targum implies a _quiet_, i.e. _sweltering_, _east wind_. Hitzig thinks that the name is derived from the season of ploughing and some modern proverbs appear to bear this out: _an autumn east wind_. LXX. συγκαίων Siegfried-Stade: _a cutting east wind_, as if from חרשׁ. Steiner emends to חריסית, as if from חֶרֶס = _the piercing_, a poetic name of the sun; and Böhme, _Z.A.T.W._, VII. 256, to חרירית, from חרר, _to glow_. Köhler (_Theol. Rev._, XVI., p. 143) compares חֶרֶשׁ, _dried clay_.
[1558] Heb.: _begged his life, that he might die_.
[1559] Heb.: _which was the son of a night, and son of a night has perished_.
[1560] Gen. x. 12.