1169. Verse 17.- And every pilot (gubernator), and all that are employed upon ships, and mariners, and as many as do work on the sea, stood afar off.

"And every pilot, and all those who are employed upon ships, and mariners, and as many as do work on the sea," signifies all who believed themselves to possess wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge (scientia), and had confirmed the falsities of doctrine and of that religion by reasonings from the natural man; "stood afar off," signifies that it is not so now in those things on account of fear.