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κ Mk. i. 16. ᾽Απεκρίθησαν αὐτῷ, “' OU.” Is. xix. 8. 5
1 Hab. i. 15. οὖν, καὶ οὐκ ἔτι αὐτὸ | ἑλκῦσαι
πι Mk. v. etc.
N Xiii. 23; XX. 2.
* Ἰχθύων. 7. λέγει οὖν
Πέτρω, ““O κύριός ἐστι. o 1 Sam.
XVili. 4. κ J 2 p Cp. xiil. 4. ἑαυτὸν €ig τὴν θάλασσαν. q xi 18.
1 1νσχνον in NBCDL.
disciples. Yes, when He openly ad- dresses them ; but here He uses the word any stranger might use, and the render- ing ‘‘ children ” retained even in R.V. is wrong. It should be “lads”; παιδίον being the common term of address to men at work, see Aristophanes, Clouds, 137, Frogs, 33; Euthymius, ἔθος γὰρ τοὺς ἐργατικοὺς οὕτως ὀνομάζειν. Jesus appeared as an intending purchaser and cries, µήτι προσφάγιον ἔχετε; ‘Have you taken any fish?” (R.V.: ‘have ye anything to eat?’’ misapprehends both the words and the situation). προσφά- ylov, as its composition shows, means anything eaten as seasoning or ‘“‘kitchen”’ to bread; being the Hellenistic word used instead of the Attic ὄψον or προσόψηµα. Athenaeus and Plutarch both tell us that fish was so commonly used in this way that προσφάγιον came to mean “fish”. €yere has its quasi- technical sense, ‘‘have ye caught?” For this sense, see Aristophanes, Clouds, 705 (723, 731), where Socrates asks Strep- siades under the blanket, ἔχεις τι; on which the Scholiast remarks, χαριέντως τὸ ἔχεις τι, TH τῶν ἀγρεντῶν λέξει XPSpevos* τοῖς γὰρ ἁλιεῦσιν ἢ ὀρνιθα- γρευταῖς οὕτω φασὶν, ἔχεις τι. So that the words of Jesus are: ‘‘ Lads, have ye caught no fish?” ἀπεκρίθησαν αὐτῷ, “OU”. ‘They answered Him, ‘ No,’”’ without any Κύριε or AtSaoxade.—Ver. 6. Ὁ δὲ εἶπεν . καὶ εὑρήσετε. ‘‘Cast your net on the right side of the boat, and you will find.” They sup- posed the stranger had been making observations from the shore, had seen a shoal or some sign of fish, and unwilling to come in empty, ἔβαλον οὖν . . . ἰχθύων. ‘““ They cast therefore, and were no longer (as they had been before) able to draw it [ἑλκύσαι, not ἑλκῦσαι, see Veitch’s Irreg. Verbs, seems here to be used as we use ‘draw’ in connection with a net, meaning to draw over the