Follow me, and. will make you fishers of men.

The Lord had already called them to be his disciples, at Bethabara, after the temptation. He now calls them to. preparation for the apostleship. Fish in the waters are as sinners in the world. It is the preacher's art so to bait the hook of divine truth as that, with ready appetite, the sinner will receive it and be captured for salvation. Hence, there was. striking accordance, and perhaps even an intended typism, between the early engagements of these men and their subsequent profession as apostles-- Whedon.

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