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V. 1. ΕΓΕΝΕΤΟ δὲ ἐν τῷ τὸν ὄχλον " ἐπικεῖσθαι αὐτῷ too!
a ρ sense in ἀκούειν τὸν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ αὐτὸς ἦν ἑστὼς παρὰ τὴν λίμνην
N.T. Acts XXVii. 2
0. a > A ἁλιεῖς ἀποβάντες ἀπ᾿ adtav® ἀπέπλυναν “ τὰ δίκτυα.
᾿Γεννησαρέτ: 2. καὶ εἶδε δύο πλοῖα ” ἑστῶτα παρὰ τὴν λίμνην: ot δὲ
3. ἐμβὰς δὲ
| ee ~ λ 4 a 4 6 , ee 4 8, 9 [ο lol eis ἓν τῶν πλοίων, ὃ ἦν τοῦ ὅ Σίμωνος, ἠρώτησεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἐπαναγαγεῖν ὀλίγον: καὶ καθίσας ὃ ἐδίδασκεν ἐκ τοῦ πλοίου 7Ἰ τοὺς
ὄχλους.
4. Ὡς δὲ ἐπαύσατο λαλῶν, εἶπε πρὸς τὸν Σίμωνα,
Ε here only Επανάγαγε εἰς τὸ "βάθος, καὶ χαλάσατε τὰ δίκτυα ὑμῶν εἰς
in same sense in N: τ.
ἄγραν.”
1 και for τον in NABL 1, 131.
2B has πλοια δυο (W.H. text). marg.).
3 amr αντων αποβαντες in BCDL 33.
5 Omit του NBDL.
5. Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς 6° Σίµων εἶπεν αὐτῷ," “*Emortdra, δι ὅλης τῆς 10 νυκτὸς κοπιάσαντες οὐδὲν ἐλάβομεν: ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ ῥήματί
NCL 33 al. min. have πλοιαρια (Tisch., W.H.,
6 επλυναν (-ov) in RBCDL. 6 καθισας Se in NBL.
Tex τ. πλ. εδιδασκεν in B (W.H.). ΝΤ have ev τ. wA.,also before εδιδ. (Tisch.).
§ Omit o BLA.
in Mk., James, John and Andrew, retire into the shade; the last-named, indeed, does not appear in the picture at all. This, doubtless, reflects the relative positions of the four disciples in the pub- lic eye in the writer’s time, and in the circle for which he wrote. The interest gathered mainly about Peter: Christian people wanted to be told about him, specially about how he became a dis- ciple. That interest had been felt before Lk. wrote, hence the tradition about his call grew ever richer in contents, till it became a lengthy, edifying story. Lk. gives it as he found it. Some think he mixes up the call with the later story told in John xxi. 1-8, and not a few critics find in his account a symbolic repre- sentation of Peter’s apostolic experience as narrated in the book of Acts. Such mixture and symbolism, if present, had probably found their way into the his- tory before it came into Lk.’s hands. He gives it bond fide as the narrative of a real occurrence, which it may quite well be.
Vv. 1-7. ἐπικεῖσθα. In Mt. and Mk. (iv. 18, i. 16) the call of the four disciples took place when Jesus was walking alone. Here Jesus is surrounded by a crowd who pressed upon Him.— καὶ ἀκούειν, etc., and were hearing the word of God. The crowd, and their eagerness to hear the word of God (phraseology here secondary), serve in the narrative to explain the need of disciples (so Schanz and Hahn).—7wapa
5 Omit αντω NB, ε, cop.
19 Omit της NABL 33.
τὴν λίµνην Γ. The position of Jesus in speaking to the crowd was on the mar- gin of the lake; called by Lk. alone Aipvy.—Ver. 2. ἑστῶτα: two boats standing by the lake, not necessarily drawn up on shore, but close to land, so that one on shore could enter them. They had just come in from the fishing, and were without occupants, their owners having come on shore to clean their nets. —Ver. 3. ἐμβὰς: this action of Jesus would be noticed of course, and would bring the owner to His side. It was Simon's boat, the man whose mother-in- law, in Lk.’s narrative, had been healed of fever.—émavayayetv, to put out to sea, here and in ver. 4 and Mt. xxi. 18 only. --ὀλίγον: just far enough to give com- mand of the audience.—ediSackev : this teaching from a boat took place again on the day of the parables (Mt. xiii. 2, Mk. iv. 1). But that feature does not appear in the corresponding narrative οἱ Lk. (viii. 4). Did Peter’s call attract that feature from the later occasion in the tradition which Lk. followed ?— Ver. 4. els τὸ βάθος, into the deep sea, naturally to be found in the centre, inside the shelving bottom stretching inwards from the shore.—yaddoare, plural, after ἐπανάγαγε, singular; the latter addressed to Peter as the master, the former denoting an act in which all in the boat would assist. Bornemann (Scholia) gives instances of similar usage in classics.—aypav, here and in νετ. 9 only, in N. T.; in the first place may be