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"For this reason, then, we do not sleep, nor do we forget the nets that are spread out in hiding, lying in wait for us to catch us. For if we are caught in a single net, it will suck us down into its mouth, while the water flows over us, striking our face. And we will be taken down into the dragnet, and we will not be able to come up from it, because the waters are high over us, flowing from above downward, submerging our heart down in the filthy mud. And we will not be able to escape from them. For man-eaters will seize us and swallow us, rejoicing like a fisherman casting a hook into the water. For he casts many kinds of food into the water because each one of the fish has his own food. He smells it and pursues its odor. But when he eats it, the hook hidden within the food seizes him and brings him up by force out of the deep waters. No man is able, then, to catch that fish down in the deep waters, except for the trap that the fisherman sets...

2007-08-10 13:51:02 · 4 answers · asked by Automaton 5 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

By the ruse of food he brought the fish up on the hook.

In this very way we exist in this world, like fish. The adversary spies on us, lying in wait for us like a fisherman, wishing to seize us, rejoicing that he might swallow us. For he places many foods before our eyes (things) which belong to this world. He wishes to make us desire one of them and to taste only a little, so that he may seize us with his hidden poison and bring us out of freedom and take us into slavery. For whenever he catches us with a single food, it is indeed necessary for us to desire the rest. Finally, then, such things become the food of death."

2007-08-10 13:51:28 · update #1

4 answers

from Authoritative Teaching found at Nag Hammadi.

it has some good material for reflection in it.

2007-08-10 13:56:49 · answer #1 · answered by treehse65 4 · 1 0

Sounds a bit paranoid to me.

2007-08-10 20:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

It sounds more paranoid than wise.

2007-08-10 20:55:00 · answer #3 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 1 0

Jesus is a fisherman? lol

2007-08-10 20:55:44 · answer #4 · answered by Jessie 4 · 0 0

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