Moby Dick

[Old Thunder]

"But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do -- remember that -- and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

 

[Old Thunder]

"And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

 

[Old Thunder]

"With this sin of disobedience in him, Jonah still further flouts at God, by seeking to flee from Him.

 

[Old Thunder]

"He thinks that a ship made by men will carry him into countries where God does not reign, but only the Captains of this earth.

 

[Old Thunder]

"He skulks about the wharves of Joppa, and seeks a ship that's bound for Tarshish.

 

[Old Thunder]

"There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto unheeded meaning here.

 

[Old Thunder]

"By all accounts Tarshish could have been no other city than the modern Cadiz.

 

[Old Thunder]

"That's the opinion of learned men.

 

[Old Thunder]

"And where is Cadiz, shipmates?

 

[Old Thunder]

"Cadiz is in Spain; as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea.