NOTES for Mat 4:19
It is possible to get gradually used to this, but reading this sentence for the first time is unpleasant. Simply because it is not good to speak about people as fishes; and in general how can someone imagine: a swimming fish gambols freely, and here comes a fisherman with a net, he first deprives the fish from freedom, after removes it from there to a place where life is impossible and just eat it. And what, is it the same with people? But that’s horrible!
Now let’s imagine a different scene. The small fish is swimming – gamboling in a muddy pondlet and doesn’t think that the water is contaminated by chemical combine’s drains. And here comes a Greenpeacer with a net, catches it, brings to an ecologically clean area and release it in a transparent huge lake, full of oxygen and food. Doesn’t this scene look different?