Ionas, A Prophet of the countrey of Cariathamaum, not farre from Azotus, a citie of the Greekes, nigh to the sea in Syria, in the time of Helias, and was the sonne of the poore widowe, and him did Helias restore vnto life, for the hospitalitie of his mother. When he came to full age, he was by almightie God sent to the great citie of Niniuie in Assiria, and as he wonld haue fled from the Lorde, and haue rurned his iourney vnto Tharsos, hee was deuoured of a Whale, and being at the last cast vp into the land aut of the Whales month, when he had bene three dayes in his belly, he went foorth and preathed in Niniuie in such wise, that the people by pnaunce resteained the sword of God, which was readie to strike them. Afterwarde Jonas vered with heauinesse of mde, returned to his countrey, nor there long abiding, taking wich him his mother, went to the land of Sur, and as he haunted the lande of Sar he there died, and was buried in the graue of Cineeus the Iudge. Hee prophecied that when men shonld see in Hierusalem muche prople come from the west partes of the world, then shonld the citie be destroyed vnto the hard earth. Ionas in hebrue signisieth a culuer, or a destroyer of people.