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SIMON PETER
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All this would seem to indicate that the narrative
otieinallv - , named Peter alone. and that the reference
to James and John was only 'introduced into it afterwards.
The object of its introduction in that care
would have been to restore aereement with Mk. and
Mt. by the naming of several~portles who had been
simultaneously called and yet at the same time to
restrict their number to that of the three 'pillars.' It
will hardly, however, be safe to attribute any such
intention to an interpolator : rather must it be put to the
account of the redactor who had the plan of the whole
book in his mind. If this be so, we shall have to
suppose that Lk. did not himself invent the story of
Peter's draught of fishes, but that he had met with it in
writing or in oral tradition and that its meaning as
denoting that the mission to the Gentiles was theinstitution
of Jesus himselfwas fully manifest to him.
(a) Now at last we are in a position to form a judgment
regarding the second boat mentioned in u., and
it. occupants.
4r they =respoken of as 'fsllowr'(lriroxoc) of Peteraod his
subordinatcr it m~ght appear at firrr r~ht as ifthey ought to be
SIMON PETER
harm. Already in Mt. 1347 we find the net employed
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nr a fi~ure i..r the !,in~:.,m