1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.
3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.
The antinomianist nature of this Paul from Tarsus/Tarsis is reflected by the fact that a rebel anti-YHWH Jonah had to arrive there as effect of the his not-obedience. The fact that Paul was just born there is an implicit confession by Acts (or by the his source) of the fact that Paul was a gnostic anti-nomianist icon quasi per se.