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for this reason, their fish was cured with fossil salt, found

_in the African desert. The priests refused all fish, according
to Plutarch, thinking they might possibly have had some
communication with the sea, Fishing with nets is illus-
trated profusely in Egyptian antiquities, and so constantly
referred to in the Bible, that it must also have been the
habit in Palestine. Our account will be appropriately closed
by the description of this employment, given by the Evan-
gelist St. John.

“ After these things Jesus showed himself again to the
disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise showed he
himself. There were together, Simon Peter, and Thomas
called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the
sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. Simon Peter
saith unto them, I go a-fishing; they say unto him, We also
go with thee. They went forth and entered into a ship im-
mediately ; and that night they caught nothing. But when
the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore, and
said unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered
him, No. And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right
side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and
now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.”

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