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We have before us the words of the Gospel about which we wish to speak; we would like especially to comment on these three points:

1) Simon Peter says, "Master, we worked all night and caught nothing."

2) "Nevertheless, at thy word I will let down the net."

3) And when they had done this, they enclosed such a great shoal of fish that their nets began to break.

Having written out these words, let us look at their spiritual meaning, especially since these words have a different connotation spiritually than (what they imply) physically.

The wearisome but resultless fishing, an activity at which Peter spent a whole night wading in the water without catching anything, is a symbol and an example of the spiritual night in which all human effort is without result, no one can catch any heavenly reward. It is thus with profit that we are told:

In the original, "Pr̄ikazateli," i.e. "Commander."

Romans 13: 12–13