‘Come, follow me,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will make you fishers of men.’ At once they left their nets and followed him.” 160-220) in his treatise on baptism, De Baptismo 1, reasons that as water sustains fish, “we, little fishes, after the image of our ichthus, Jesus Christ, are born in the water (of baptism) nor are we safe but by remaining in it.” Calling of the Fishermen-Anderson 1906-96īy calling Christians “little fishes,” Tertullian evokes Mark 1:16-18 where Jesus, the Big Fisherman, called fishermen to become fishers of men: “As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.
One recalls Africanus’ translation of The Narrative of Events that supposedly happened in Persia at the time of Christ’s birth when the statues cried out: “(Mary) bears in her womb, as in the deep, a vessel of myriad talents’ burden….This stream of water sends forth the perennial stream of spirit, a stream containing a single fish, taken with the hook of Divinity, and sustaining the whole world with its flesh as though it were in the sea.” If these golden plates go back to the Magi and the birth of Jesus, this is the earliest allusion to Christ as Fish.ĬLICK HERE to read Africanus’ Narrative on the Magi Tertullian-Father of Western Theology
Of all the symbols commonly used by early Christians, the fish was the most mystic.
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