The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 485

from that time forw11r,l "flshe?'II of men " illustmtion of, &nd testimony to, the cha- (M11tL Iv. 21; Mink i. 19, 20; Lnko v. 10). motor of the msn who was so oonsplouous Thnt thev should here be mentionecl after an initiator. They 1ay to him, We al10 oome ThnmRsJLnd nft<-r Nathanael oorresponds with (or, go) with thee. They do not "follow" the retiN'nce nnd modeety of the evangelist. him, as they hRd. been summoned once to This is st.ill more proba.ble ir the two ot.her follow their Lord: but they are willing, deoiplee 'lll'ere p.aery.,..i[ in the broader senee. even ooger, to accompany the strong-hearted The eimp!e fad that they are mentioned msn, and ready t.o tllko his lead. They after the ft •e apostles ba.s been thought by 11hare at once either in his presentiment or eome to irr, ;ily th&t, whosoever these were, in the expression of his delayed hope. They tbev were n ,t of the number of the eleven. went forth; i.e. from the bome whioh they No· one w1iting the story in the second had made for themselves on this well- century would, in an enumeration like this, remembered spot-from Capernanm, which have placed the proto-martyr James and 1ras most probably the early home of Peter, the intimate friend of Peter, the great and a spot to which he would naturally "ligl.Jt of Allie.," the admitted author of the n,vert. An4 entered into the ship ; 1 the Apocalypse., and the spiritual father of veritable vessel that had often served them Polycsrp and Papiae, after Thome.e and on that lako of storms. Though Peter and Nathanael. After his manner, be (the author) Andrew, James ond John, had left their here prepared for the implicit subsequent boats and nets and hired seno.nts, it is not identification of the "disoiple whom Jesus unlikely that members of their two families loved," and also the author of the Goepel, had retaiDed them. And that night they took with one of the sons of Zehedee. The sup- nothing. Let the unusual word be noticed. position that Andrew and Philip are me1tnt n.d(uv occurs three times in this brief by the "two other disciples" is not without narrative and six times in the Gospel, in verisimilitude, from their mention in oh. i. the sense of "laying hold," "taking posses- If thie were the ca.se, both of them are sion of," but nowhere in the synoptists. practically dieoriminated from the" disciple It oconrs, however, in Acts xii. 4 ; 2 Cor. whom Jesus loved" by the obvious refer- :ri. 32; Ecolus. xxiii. 21 ; and, what is more ences to them elsewhere by name, while remt1.rkable, in the sense of "ta.king animals" "John " never thus signnlizes himself. The in Rev. xix. 20 ( l1rnur871 -rb 871plav) ; so the mention of seven disciples revee.ls the love LXX. for 11:tt;t (Cant. ii. 15). The night of the writer for the number" seven," with was then, as now, the most convenient time its division into two groups of three and for fishing, and the fruitless 'effort must four ( see Introduction, pp. lxxviii., lx.xi.x. ). have remiDded them of the night desoribed And it is remarkable that, if Andrew and in Luke v. Some critics have supposed Philip are the unnamed ones, the seven this failure to be parabolic or symbolic of would correspond with the first seven the comparatively barren results of thG apostlesmentioned in Matthew's enumeration apostolio ministry t.o the Jews, while what (x. 2-4). Matthew, James the son of followed was prophetic of the great success Alplueus, J udes tlle brother of James, or which should accompany their appeal t.o the TlladdJBus, and Simon the Zealot were not Gentiles. But Peter's wonderful success on present. This, of course, rests on the hypo- tho Day of Pentecost and on subsequent thesis that Nathanael and Bartholomew are occasions in dealing with Jews,'contradicts identical ( ell. i. 45, note). this interpretation. The only analogy Ver. 3.-Simon Feter ■aith unto them, I which offers itself t.o onr minds is the go a-filhing. The abruptness of the lan- limited success of all their endeavours until guage addressed t.o six (p.a9,rr«l) disciples, the apostles were veritably endowed with who seemed to be living as in one family, power from on ltigb. imggests a lengthened waiting, and some Ver. 4.-When the day was now breaking,• disppointment ae to the effect upon their J'88UII stood on• the beaoh. Iftbe •is be the daily life of the great revelation. They are 1 'Avl{J71,1<u, is the reading of T.R.: but ■nmmoned by the most commanding spirit among them to resume what was, for some tt, A. B, C, D, etc., reucl lvi{J71uaJ1, and are of them at least, their customary calling. followed by all the modem editors. EM«.,s He would seek in humble fashion, a.long the is omitted by Meyer, Westcott and Hort, linea of ordinary duty to his family and hi.m- Tischendorf (8th edit.), and R.T., on the aelf, the 111pply of daily want& According authority of tt, D, 0, D, L, X, .6, numero118 t.o 1101De writen, Pe1.P,r felt a presentiment versions and o11J'Bive manuscripts, but not of the comiDg of hia Lord under scenes by Godet; •b6r1r is the reading of T.B. identical with those of his first call (Luke • Many manuscripts, with t-t, Vulgate, v. 1-11). Aeoording to others, Peter ell:- and Syria.c, omit f/371. It is not expunged hibited 80llle of the heart-sickness of deferred by Westcott and Hort, nor Twchendorf (8th hope. On either supposition we IIBC a new edit.), nor B.'1', rwa,.l1111s is preferred by clt, xxr. 1-26,] THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN. 501