![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amos uses fishing as an image of judgment as well: “The Lord God has sworn by his holiness. Jeremiah uses this imagery for judgment against Israel: “I am now sending for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall catch them… For my eyes are on all their ways they are not hidden from my presence… I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations (Jeremiah 16:16-18). He diverges from the typical evangelistic sermon because he sees the image of “fishers of men” in the prophets. Rather than an evangelistic call to bring people to church, Hays argues that this call is to carry news of God’s judgment on sin. Hays caught my attention with his figural reading of the phrase “fishers of men.” As Hays works his way through the four gospels (and Acts, here and there), he demonstrates a way of reading Scripture called “figural reading.” Whether or not you’re familiar with figural reading, Hays shows how this method can help you see the riches of Scripture, especially in passages you’ve read before. ![]()
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