16. send for —translate, "I will send many"; "I will give the commission to many" ( 2 Chronicles 17:7 ). fishers . . . hunters —successive invaders of Judea ( Amos 4:2 ; Habakkuk 1:14 ; Habakkuk 1:15 ). So "net" ( Ezekiel 12:13 ). As to "hunters," see Genesis 10:9 ; Micah 7:2 . The Chaldees were famous in hunting, as the Egyptians, the other enemy of Judea, were in fishing. "Fishers" expresses the ease of their victory over the Jews as that of the angler over fishes; "hunters," the keenness of their pursuit of them into every cave and nook. It is remarkable, the same image is used in a good sense of the Jews' restoration, implying that just as their enemies were employed by God to take them in hand for destruction, so the same shall be employed for their restoration ( Ezekiel 47:9 ; Ezekiel 47:10 ). So spiritually, those once enemies by nature ( fishermen many of them literally) were employed by God to be heralds of salvation, "catching men" for life ( Matthew 4:19 ; Luke 5:10 ; Acts 2:41 ; Acts 4:4 ); compare here Jeremiah 16:19 , "the Gentiles shall come unto thee" ( Jeremiah 16:19- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-17" class="com-number"
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