RT Article
T1 Encore une fois les 153 poissons (Jn 21,11)
JF Biblica
VO 90
IS 1
SP 84
OP 92
A1 Rastoin, Marc 1967-
LA French
PB Peeters
YR 2009
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1823417213
AB The number of fishes in Joh 21,11 has been a crux for the interpreters of the Fourth Gospel. If the theological meaning of the scene seemed to be clear enough — an allusion to the universality of salvation brought by Christ — the why of the number 153 tried the imagination of scholars since Augustine. This note intends to add several arguments to the proposition made by J. Emerton in 1958 that this number refers to Ez 47,1-12. The link between both passages becomes much easier to make and the theological coherence of this allusion within Johannine global theological framework appears more clearly.
K1 John 21,11
K1 Ezekiel 47,1-12
K1 number 153
K1 universality of salvation
K1 Numbers
K1 number of fishes