Bede — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 5:10 (from his Commentary on Luke)

Patristic A.D. 709

Bede · A.D. 673–735

“This especially belongs to Peter himself, for the Lord explains to him what this taking of fish means; that in fact as now he takes fishes by the net, so hereafter he will catch men by words. And the whole order of this event shews what is daily going on in the Church, of which Peter is the type.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 5:10 (from his Commentary on Luke) PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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Bede — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 5:10 (from his Commentary on Luke)

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