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Joh 21:7. Λέγει, saith) A quiet life more quickly observes Divine things, than an active life: and yet this latter furnishes an opportunity of doing so, and does not fail to produce fruit in the case of saints.-ἐπενδύτην) Suidas explains ἐπενδύτης as τὸ ἐσώτατον ἱμάτιον, the inmost garment. But the LXX. render by the word ἐπενδύτης, מעיל (the long upper garment worn by persons of rank).-διεζώσατο, girt on himself) Peter [did so, because he] reverenced the presence of the Lord, whereas he had been previously engaged with his fellow-disciples in a more familiar manner.-γυμνὸς) He had script off (whilst fishing with his fellow-disciples) τὸν ἐπενδύτην.[401]-ἜΒΑΛΕΝ ἙΑΥΤῸΝ ΕἸς ΤῊΝ ΘΆΛΑΣΣΑΝ, he cast himself into the sea) being likely to reach the Lord sooner by swimming than by ship. Comp. Mat 14:28, “Peter said, Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come unto Thee on the water.”[402] The love of Jesus draws one through fires and waves.
[401] Wahl Clav. New Testament makes it the upper tunic, somewhat approaching to the pallium or toga, and put on between the shirt and the outer garments, and therefore different from the shirt or chemise, χιτώνισκος or ὑποδύτης. Th. ἐπὶ and ἐνδύω.-E. and T.
[402] Archbishop Whately, in a MS. note kindly furnished to me, observes, that “εἰς, with the Accusative, probably means on, upon, not into. Had Peter been going to wade or swim, he would not have grit on his coat, but rather thrown it off (unless, as Beng. suggests, from reverence to the Lord). He received, probably, an intimation, that he should now perform the miracle in which his faith had formerly failed”-viz. walking ON the water.-E. and T.