Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"
V. Jonah's being cast overboard is the perfect type of fleshly Israel's overthrow as "the chosen people of God."  The dramatic rejection of the fleshly Israel as "God's peculiar people" is inherent in the fact that all of the glorious titles which once pertained to the old Israel are, by apostolic authority, applied to the church of Jesus Christ, which is the new Israel.  Thus, it is not fleshly Israel, but the church, the new Israel, who is now: