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Mat_4:18. Comp. Luk_5:1 ff.
θάλασς . τῆς Γαλιλ .] Lake of Gennesareth or Tiberias (see on Joh_6:1) is 140 stadia long and 40 broad, with romantic environs, and abounding in fish (Josephus, Bell. iii. 10. 7), about 500 feet below the level of the Mediterranean. See Robinson, Pal. III. pp. 499, 509; Ritter, Erdk. XV. 1, p. 284 ff.; Rüetschi in Herzog’s Encykl. V.; Keim, Gesch. J. I. p. 599 ff.
τὸν λεγόμ . Πέτρον ] not a ὕστεριν πρότερον , but see on Mat_16:18. That the evangelists always have (with the exception of the diplomatic passage, Joh_1:43) the name Peter, which in Paul is certainly found only in Gal_2:7 f., not Cephas, is explained in the case of Matthew by the circumstance that his Gospel is only a translation, and that at the time of its composition the Greek name had become the common one.