Quotes & Notes on:     Luke 5:10   John Wesley,  Notes On the New Testament (1755): No comment on this verse. Reginald Fuller's Preaching the Lectionary (1984):  To be posted.   William Baird, Interpreter's Commentary, 1971:  To be posted.   J. McNicol, The New Bible Commentary, 1954:  To be posted.   I.H. Marshall, The New Bible Commentary, 1970:  To be posted.   David Guzik, Study Guide: To be posted.   Chuck Smith, Study Guide: To be posted.   Catechism of the Catholic Church: To be posted.   J. Norval Geldenhuys, Bible Expositor, 1960: To be posted.   Abingdon Bible Commentary (1929): To be posted.   D.D. Whedon, Commentary on Luke, 1866: To be posted.   Joseph Parker, People's Bible, 1901: To be posted.   Anchor Bible: To be posted.   The Fourfold Gospel:  From henceforth thou shalt catch men. Jesus here shows the purpose for which this miracle had been wrought. It was a prophetic type or picture which foreshadowed the triumphs of the day of Pentecost and other seasons when the apostles had great ingatherings of souls through the preaching of the gospel. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: * James. Lu 6:14; Mt 4:21; 20:20 * partners. Lu 5:7; 2Co 8:23 * from. Eze 47:9,10; Mt 4:19; 13:47; Mr 1:17; Ac 2:4   Robertson's Word Pictures: Thou shalt catch men (esêi zôgrôn). Periphrastic future indicative, emphasizing the linear idea. The old verb Zôgreô means to catch alive, not to kill. So then Peter is to be a catcher of men, not of fish, and to catch them alive and for life, not dead and for death. The great Pentecost will one day prove that Christ's prophecy will come true. Much must happen before that great day. But Jesus foresees the possibilities in Simon and he joyfully undertakes the task of making a fisher of men out of this poor fisher of fish.   William Burkitt's Notes: No comment on this verse.   Family Bible Notes:  Catch men; by proclaiming to them the gospel, and thus bringing them from the service of Satan to the service of Christ.   1599 Geneva Bible Notes: No comment on this verse.   People's New Testament Commentary: Said unto Simon. Not to him alone (Mt 1:19). Simon, Andrew, James and John were all told to become "fishers of men" [Mt 4:10; Mr 1:17].   Albert Barnes' Commentary:   Fear not. He calmed their fears. With mildness and tenderness he stilled all their troubled feelings, and to their surprise announced that henceforward they should be appointed as heralds of salvation. From henceforth. Hereafter. Shalt catch men. Thou shalt be a minister of the gospel, and thy business shall be to win men to the truth that they may be saved.   Jamieson-Faussett Brown:  Simon, fear not--This shows how the Lord read Peter's speech. The more highly they deemed Him, ever the more grateful it was to the Redeemer's spirit. Never did they pain Him by manifesting too lofty conceptions of Him. from henceforth--marking a new stage of their connection with Christ. The last was simply, "I will make you fishers." fishers of men--"What wilt thou think, Simon, overwhelmed by this draught of fishes, when I shall bring to thy net what will beggar all this glory?"   Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:  No comment on this verse.   Adam Clarke's Commentary: Thou shalt catch men. Thou shalt catch men alive; this is the proper signification of the word. Fear not: these discoveries of God tend to life, not to death; and ye shall become the instruments of life and salvation to a lost world. These fish are taken to be killed and fed on; but those who are converted under your ministry shall be preserved unto eternal life. See ACC for Mt 4:18, &c., where this subject is considered more at large.   Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary: No comment on this verse.   More That symbolic ideas are involved is seen in the fact that catching fish is a sign of the Christian mission.  The deep is the abyss from which men must be saved. - William Baird, Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary, p. 680 Whatever may be the destiny of the literal fish, the souls they symbolize are captured by the spiritual fishermen into the service of the giver of life. - D.D. Whedon, Commentary on the Gospels, Vol. Luke-John, p. 68

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