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-σου χαλάσω τὸ Siktuov.”! 6. Καὶ τοῦτο ποιήσαντες, συνέκλεισον ἐχθύων πλῆθος 3 πολύ: διερρήγνυτο δὲ τὸ δίκτυον ὃ αὐτῶν, 7. καὶ κατένευσαν τοῖς " μετόχοις τοῖς” ἐν τῷ ἑτέρῳ πλοίῳ, τοῦ ἐλθόντας c here and
συλλαβέσθαι αὐτοῖς: καὶ ἦλθον, καὶ ἔπλησαν ἀμφότερα τὰ πλοῖα, ὥστε βυθίζεσθαι αὖτά. δ. ἰδὼν δὲ Σίµων Πέτρος προσέπεσε τοῖς
several times in Heb. (i. 9, είς.).
όνασι τοῦ ὅ Ἰησοῦ, λέγων, '΄Ἔξελθε ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ, ὅτι ἀνὴρ ἁμαρτωλός
clipe, Κύριε.”
9. Θάμβος γὰρ περιέσχεν αὐτὸν καὶ πάντας τοὺς σὺν
2A aN α 3” ~ 3 , μα] . , Δ ‘ αὐτῷ, ἐπὶ τῇ dypa τῶν ἰχθύων 4° συνέλαβον: 1Ο. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ᾿Ιάκωβον καὶ Ιωάννην, υἱοὺς Ζεβεδαίου, ot ἦσαν κοινωνοὶ τῷ Σίµωνι. Καὶ εἶπε πρὸς τὸν Σίµωνα 67 ᾿Ιησοῦς, “Mi φοβοῦ": ἀπὸ τοῦ viv
ἀνθρώπους Eon ζωγρῶν.”
11. Καὶ καταγαγόντες τὰ πλοῖα ἐπὶ τὴν
Ὑῆν, ἀφέντες ἅπαντα, ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ.
1 τα δικτυα in SBDL.
2 πληθος ιχθυων in ΝΑΒΟΙ.. T.R. = D.
3 S9BL have διερησσετο, and NBDL τα δικτυα (Tisch., W.H., adopt both),
4 Omit tors NBDL. 6 wv in BD instead of η (in SCL).
used actively = for taking, in the second, passively = fora take. But the latter sense might suit both places. If so used here the word implies a promise (Hahn).—Ver. 5. ἐπιστάτα: Lk.’s name for Jesus as Master, six times; a Greek term for Gentile readers instead of Rabbi = (1) Master, then (2) Teacher, «qui enim magistri doctrinae erant, ii magistri simul vitae esse solebant,”’ Kypke.—émi τῷ ῥήματί σον, at Thy word or bidding. Success was doubly im- probable: it was day, and in deep water ; fish were got at night, and near shore. The order, contrary ἵο pro- bability, tempts to symbolic interpreta- tion: the deep sea the Gentile world; Peter’s indirect objection symbol of his reluctance to enter on the Gentile mission, overcome by a special revela- tion (Acts x.). So Holtz., Η. C.—Ver. 6. διερήσσετο, began to break, or were on the point of breaking; on the sym- bolic theory = the threatened rupture of ainity though the success of the Gentile mission (Acts xv.).—Ver. 7. κατένευσαν, they made signs, beckoned, here only in N. T. (évévevov, i. 62); too far to speak perhaps, but fishers would be accustomed to communicate by signs to preserve needful stillness (Schanz).—ovAAaBéo Oar αὐτοῖς: this verb with dative occurs in Phil. iv. 3 =to help οΠθ8.--ὥστε, with infinitive = tendency here, not result.— βνθίζεσθαι, to sink in the deep (βυθός), here only in O. or N. T. in reference to aship; int Tim. vi. 9 in reference to cich men,
5 SSB al. omit τον. 7 Omit o BL...
Vv. 8-11. Sequel of the miracle.— Ver. 8. Πέτρος: here for first time introduced without explanation, pre- sumably in connection with the great crisis in his history.—avnp ἁμαρτωλός : a natural exclamation especially for an impulsive nature in the circumstances. But the utterance, though real, might have been passed over in the tradition. Why so carefully recorded by Lk.? Perhaps because it was a fitting thing for any man to say on becoming a dis- ciple of the Holy Jesus—the sin of the disciple a foil to the holiness of the Master. Also to supply a justification for the statement in ver. 32, ‘‘I came not to call,’ etc. In this connection sin is ascribed to all the apostles when called, in very exaggerated terms in Ep. Barnab., v. g (ὄντας ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν ἁμαρτίαν ἀνομωτέρους). --- Ver. ro, ᾿Ιάκωβον καὶ ᾿Ἰωάννην, dependent on περιέσχεν : fear encompassed them also, not less than Peter and the rest. This special mention of them is not expiained, unless inferentially in what follows.— μὴ φοβοῦ, fear not, addressed to Peter alone. He alone, so far as appears, is to become a fisher of men, but the other two are named, presumably, because meant to be included, and in matter of fact they as well as Simon abandon all and follow Jesus (νετ. 11).—{wypév : the verb means to take alive, then generally to take; here and in 2 Tim. ii, 26. The analytic form (ἔσῃ ζωγρῶν) implies per- Manent occupation = thou shall be a taker.—Ver. 11. καταγαγόντες τ. πλ.,