Word: galilean
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Simon Peter:" -- About these two words are twined the suggestive memories of a wonderful life, a life full of stress and storm and change but firm and victorious in the end. There comes before one the picture of Simon, the Galilean fisherman, fickle and untrue, known among the sailors of the lake as a man in whom no sure confidence could be placed. Again there rises before one the scene on that day when Christ first met the humble fisherman and gave to the weak Simon the name of Peter,--that is to say at last the old fickleness...