Rushing Into Danger

Dominus autem misit ventum magnum in mare, et facta est tempastas magna in mari et navis periclitabatur conteri. LXX: Et Dominus suscitavit spiritum magnum in mare, et facta est tempestas magna in mari, et navis periclitabatus conteri.   Potest fuga propetae et ad hominis referri in communi personam, qui Dei praecepta contemnens recessit a facie ejus, et se mundo tradidit, ubi postea malorum tempestate, et totius mundi contra se saeviente naufragio, compulsus est sentire Deum, et reverti ad eum quem fugerat. Unde intelligimus etiam ea quae sibi homines aestimant salutaria, Deo nolente, verti in perniciem et non solum non prodesse auxilium his, quibus praebetur, sed et ipsos qui praebent, pariter conteri. Sicut legimus victam ab Assyriis Aegyptum, quia opitulabatur Israeli contra Domini voluntatem. Periclitatur navis quae periclitantem susceperat: vento maria concitantur, in tranquillitate tempestas oritur, nihil, Deo adversante, securum est. Sanctus Hieronimus, Commentarius In Jonam Prophetem, Lib I, Cap I

'The Lord sent a great wind upon the sea and made a great storm in the sea and the ship was in danger of being destroyed.' The Septuagint has: 'And the Lord caused to rise a great spirit in the sea and there a great storm in the sea and the ship was in danger of being destroyed.' 1 One is able to refer the flight of the prophet to the person of the common man, he who, spurning the commands of God, withdraws from His face and gives himself to the world, and after a storm of evil, with all the world wildly against him and making his shipwreck, he is compelled to attend to God and return to Him whom he fled. Whence we may understand that even when men judge themselves to be safe, if God is unwilling, a man is thrown into ruin and not only does the help of those who offer it not avail, but even those who would assist are buffeted with him. So we read of the defeat of Egypt by the Assyrians, because it was aiding Israel against the will of the Lord. The ship imperiled is the one overtaken by danger, where the sea is troubled by the wind, where a storm arises in peace, where nothing, with God unwilling, is secure.  Saint Jerome, Commentary on Jonah, Book 1, Chapter 1 1 Jonah 1.4