a great multitude of fishes Of this as of all miracles we may say with St Gregory Dum facit miraculum prodit mysteriumin other words the miracle was an acted parable, of which the significance is explained in Matthew 13:47.

brake Rather, were beginning to break (dierregnuto). Contrast this with John 21:11, οὐκ ἐσχίσθη. This breakingnet is explained by St Augustine as the symbol of the Church which now is: he compares the unrentnet to the Church of the future which shall know no schisms.

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