Matthew 4:19
Douay-Rheims
And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be fishers of men.
John Chrysostom (attributed)
Fishers of men, that is, teachers, that with the net of God’s word you may catch men out of this world of storm and danger, in which men do not walk but are rather borne along, the Devil by pleasure drawing them into sin where men devour one another as the stronger fishes do the weaker, withdrawn from hence they may live upon the land, being made members of Christ’s body.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:18-22
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.