Another Thought on Jonah and the Whale

In the final verse of the book of Jonah, we read this:

And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

I've thought about this verse a lot. I don't remember where I read this, on a website, but I can't find it now, but someone explains those who cannot discern between their right and left hand as those who are minors according to the law. He states there were 120,000 men, not including women and those who did not know their right hand from their left hand, or, in other words, minors. 

It's a great explanation. It's one of the things that have kept me thinking about this verse. But instead of believing it represents minors, I believe it represents anyone who did not know right from wrong, or more particularly, the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Those who did not have the opportunity to receive and accept the gospel. Possibly even those who did not get a proper opportunity to receive and accept it. They're like children, or minors, they're innocent, because they didn't know the complete truth, so there's no way they could have obeyed it. We give preferential treatment to minors in our law. Because they don't know what we know as adults. 

On another note, when Jonah is in the ship, in the first chapter of the book, and the sea rages, he sleeps. The Greek version, the Septuagint, says that he snores. He's so sound asleep. This is one of the parts of the book that I've struggled with. What does it mean. Supposedly he was the cause of the storm. So why could he sleep so soundly and the other men, innocent, could not? 

I'm not sure he caused the storm after all. I'd say the storm is life. There are storms a raging all the time. Those who do not have the peace of the gospel of Jesus Christ and its ordinances, (or, those who are innocent, as discussed above) which are eternal and ever binding, do not feel peace when the storms rage. Jonah, one with the gospel, who had received eternal, binding ordinances, could sleep in the storm.