40. One . . . was Andrew--The other was doubtless our Evangelist
himself. His great sensitiveness is touchingly shown in his
representation of this first contact with the Lord; the circumstances
are present to him in the minutest details; he still remembers the Very
hour. But "he reports no particulars of those discourses of the Lord by
which he was bound to Him for the whole of His life; he allows
everything personal to retire" [OLSHAUSEN].
Peter's brother--and the elder of the two.
JFB.
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