Luke 5:4 Douay-Rheims

Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.

Bede the Venerable

c. A.D. 672–735 Patristic

Or the other ship is the Church of the Gentiles, which itself also (one ship being not sufficient) is filled with chosen fishes. For the Lord knows who are His, and with Him the number of His elect is sure. And when He finds not in Judæa so many believers as He knows are destined to eternal life, He seeks as it were another ship to receive His fishes, and fills the hearts of the Gentiles also with the grace of faith. And well when the net brake did they call to their assistance the ship of their companions, since the traitor Judas, Simon Magus, Ananias and Sapphira, and many of the disciples, went back. And then Barnabas and Paul were separated for the Apostleship of the Gentiles.

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A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 5:4-7

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