Fisherman and Fish Pond: From the Sea of Sin to the Living Waters

Abstract

Our understanding of fish and fishing images in Early Christian art is complicated by patristic writers who have given contradictory interpretations of the waters as both the “sea of sin” and “living water.” In this article the implications of this paradoxical interpretation are explored, and a new group of marine scenes, which are here designated “fish ponds,” are seen as images of “living water.”

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