John Trapp on John 21:3

Verſe 3. I goe a fiſhing, &c.] Being not yet employ'd in the publike miniſtery, Re[illegible: 1 letter]age[illegible: 2 letters]utus gets. Ovid. he would not be idle, and that he might not be chargable to the Church. This life is in Iſaiah called, The life of our hands, becauſe it is to be maintained by the labour of our hands. We are to earn ere we eat, 2 Theſſ. 3.

And that night they caught nothing.] Labour we never ſo hard, unleſſe God bleſſe it, and ſtop that hole in the bottom of the bag, Hag. 1.1. thoſe ſecret iſſues and drains of expence, at which mens eſtates run out, we ſhall be forced to ſay with Severus the Emperour, Spartian. Omnia fui, & nihil profuit.