[Magdalen] Arrow prayers, please

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Google 153 fish and you will discover that nobody really knows the answer.
The idea of 153 fish types is something I've also heard, but there are lots
of other ideas as well. 153 has some numerical meanings (153 = 1 + 2 + 3 +
4 ... + 17). Gematria has also been mentioned.

None of these answers is satisfactory to me at all.  It's right up there
with Paul's "because of the angels" remark that nobody knows what it means
(a Jesus Seminar friend of mine suspects it goes back to the Nephilim).

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Our preacher shared an interpretation he said he hadn't heard in all
> his decades of sermon preparation: The number relates to the number of
> types of fish known at the time so was meant to express universality.
> I'm fine with the universality (and by extension the disciples...and
> Church...catching people of all nations with the Way and the Gospel)
> but wonder whether 153 was widely known as the number of types of
> fish.
>
> Anyway, I think it's similar to 7 similarly symbolizing universality
> or wholeness.
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Charles Wohlers
> <charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
> > This very topic was mentioned in the sermon this AM at All Saints,
> Whitman
> > (MA). Along with, Why 153 fish? Neither of which were the main topic of
> the
> > sermon, BTW.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>