From: Rod Bias (Rod.Bias@asu.edu)
Date: Tue May 14 1996 - 05:39:50 EDT
David Scholer wrote:
>
> Of course, the 153 may simply be the literal number in the catch. But, a
> symbolic meaning should not be so quickly dismissed. The suggestion that
> there is nothing to suggest a symbolic meaning may be ignoring the
> statement that "the net was not broken" = the Johannine concern for
> unity/"that they all may be one."
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The number 153 is the seventeenth in the sequence pointed out by (from
memory ... nothing at hand to check this out) an Italian mathematician named
"Fibanacci" (or something like that).
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17=153
1 3 6 10 15 21 28 36 45 55 66 78 91 105 120 136 153
What, if any, bearing or meaning this has escapes me.
-- Rod.Bias@ASU.EduRodney L. Bias (602) 438-9202 4648 East Saint Catherine Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85040-5369 USA
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