And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fish.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
The evangelist praises Peter, and excuses the other apostles: all come to Christ; the former leaving his boat, his companions, his nets and prey, arrives more expeditiously; the latter with the impediments of the boat and nets arrive also, but not so readily; a just figure this of religious, who leave all to go directly to God, and of those who remain in the world, and have to navigate a treacherous element with imminent danger of shipwreck. (Maldonatus)
The poet Sedulius writes thus on the nets: Pendula fluctivagam traxerunt retia prædam, Per typicam noscenda viam; nam retia dignis Lucida sunt præcepta Dei, quibus omnis in illa Dextra parte manens concluditur, ac simul ulnis Fertur apostolicis Domini ad vestigia Christi.
