Of the Hundred and fifty-three fish: Identity and enowning in the image of a number On a hidden relationship between the writings of John and the three other Gospels
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number of fish caught at the nocturnal fishing on Lake Tiberias
appears as significant as it is mysterious.
Also the richness of its mathematical relations - it yields, e.g., the
addition series or the triangular number of the seventeen, which is mentioned in the Mosaic writings quite often, and it represents the first Armstrong number - cannot explain the peculiar way of its mention: it stands alone, without further indication of measure as is the case with other numbers.
It is mentioned without any further arithmetical or narrative context; it appears like a statement that contains a special but hidden meaning.
The work traces the meaning of the number on the basis of the Hebrew etymology.
In the process, a hitherto unknown relation of this number to the
story of camel and eye of a needle in the other three Gospels is revealed.
Herbert Weiler
Born in 1956 - from 1974 studied free painting and free graphic arts in Cologne with Pravoslav Sovak and Karl Marx 1978 encounter with the Münchner Rhythmenlehre, from 1983 seminars with Wolfgang Döbereiner - seminar activity on art history and astrology - 1984-1990 lecturer at the Cologne FH for Art & Design, seminars for drawing as development of seeing - painter, sculptor, author - astrological consulting and seminar work, essays
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Of the Hundred and fifty-three fish - Herbert Weiler
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Contents
Introduction
Of the hundred and fifty-three fish
The seventeen
Word, number and image
The fish – nun
The beginning
The Ereignis, the enowning
The Camel and eye of the needle
Possession and complacency,
property and enowning
- Habe and Behäbigkeit,
Eigentum and Ereignis
Man
Notes
Hebrew Foundations of the Gospels
Money and monetary economy
Mutual relationship between the text of John and those of the other three evangelists
Nunas German word for Present
The tetragram and the instruction to charity
Name and designation
The shin in the name Jehoshua
Tsipor Nefesh
Introduction
The number always touched in its explicit nomination, in which it stands alone. The amount of fish was so large that the disciples could not pull the net into the boat but had to drag it to the bank and bring it ashore.
There were 153 big fish. No further hint. The number is mentioned without another narrative context, without numerical relations as it occurs with other figures. The feeding of the five thousand people, for instance, who had followed Jesus without provisions into the desert and who, as it is told, were filled by five breads and two fish, so that still twelve baskets were left over.
Here are just the hundred and fifty-three fish, a number that is specifically mentioned without a following context.
More than other biblical namings of numbers, this seems to be a statement. Only in the writings of John does it occur.
The text of John also differs in other respects from those of the other three evangelists. The prologue, the structural expression, as in the seven I am-words of Jesus, as well as the repeated self-denomination of Jesus as the Son of God, are of a philosophical conciseness that distinguishes it from the other three texts.
The juxtapposition of the philosophical dimension of the Gospel of John was already the subject of early scripture interpretation.
The relation of the four Gospels to each other was seen in correspondence with the image of the four living creatures at the throne of God from the vision of Ezekiel and in the revelation of John: Matthew the Angel or Man, Mark the Lion, Luke the Bull, and John the Eagle. Here in accordance with the Aristotelian four reasons of being, the four causalities: the causa materialis, the material cause in the symbol of the bull, the causa formalis, the form-creating ground or formal cause in the symbol of the lion, the causa efficiens, the confronting, encountering or efficient cause in the symbol of the eagle and the causa finalis, the obtaining, final cause in the symbol of the angel or man. (The four-quadrants / Wolfgang Döbereiner)
The eagle assigned to John, symbol of the effecting cause, illustrates the elevation to the opposing, abstract thinking, which has become independent of the sensitivities and conditions of the subjective, and which rises like an eagle. Thomas of Aquin
Thus, the different characters of the Gospels in the image of the Taurus, the Lion, the Eagle and the Angel are presented as a structure whose elements are interrelated.
Here it is noticeable that the description of the miraculous catch of fish in the days after resurrection, with a peculiar mention of the number of the hundred and fifty-three fish, does not appear in the texts of the other three evangelists.
However, a story which is found among the other evangelists, but not John, is that of the rich man who asks Jesus about the acquisition of the Kingdom of Heaven, ending with the well-known parable of the camel and the eye of the needle.
It occurs almost identically in Mark, Luke and Matthew.
Considering the etymological context of the words in the Hebrew language and