John Trapp on Jonah 1:13

Verſe 13. Nevertheleſſe the men rowed,] Heb. digged: for ſo they that row ſeem to do with their oars,Virg. Aeneid. Vaſtum ſulcavimus aequor. as with ſpades. Hence alſo the Latine Poets ſay, that Boatmen cut, plow, furrow the waters. Infindunt pariter ſulcos,— The Seventy render it [non-Latin text not transcribed], they did their utmoſt indeavour with violence, to bring the ſhip to ſhore, and to ſave Jonah: and not as thoſe bloody Emperours, Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius, who took delight in the puniſhment of offenders, and uſed to come early in the morning into the market-place, to behold their executions. Non niſ[illegible: 1 letter] coactus, Ʋtinam literas neſcirem. ſaid that better Emperour, when he was to ſubſcribe a ſentence of death: and, Oh that I could not write mine own name, ſaid Another upon the like occaſion.

but they could not,] They did but ſtrive againſt the ſtream, for the Lord had otherwiſe determined it: and Voluntas Dei neceſſitas re[illegible: 1 letter]: who hath reſiſted his will?

for the Sea wrought and was tempeſtuous againſt them.] As verſe 11. Praeſentem que vires intentant omnia mortem.