ACC ~ John 10 v16

THE CONVERSION OF GENTILES AND JEWS

THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: This sentence alludes to those among the Gentiles who will believe, because many among the Gentiles as well as many among the Jews are destined to gather together into a single church and to acknowledge one shepherd and one lord, who is Christ. This has indeed actually happened. But at that time the miracles confirmed the words; now the fulfillment of the words confirms the miracles accomplished then even though this did not appear at that time. COMMENTARY ON JOHN 4.10.16. [1]

[1] CSCO 4 3:204-5.

TWO ISRAELS

AUGUSTINE: So listen to this unity being even more urgently drawn to your attention: “I have other sheep,” he says, “who are not of this fold.” He was talking, you see, to the first sheepfold of the race of Israel according to the flesh. But there were others, of the race of the same Israel according to faith, and they were still outside, they were of the Gentiles, predestined but not yet gathered in. He knew those whom he had predestined. He knew those whom he had come to redeem by shedding his blood. He was able to see them, while they could not yet see him. He knew them, though they did not yet believe in him. “I have,” he said, “other sheep that are not of this fold,” because they are not of the race of Israel according to the flesh. But all the same, they will not be outside this sheepfold, because “I must bring them along too, so that there may be one flock and one shepherd.” SERMON 138.5. [1]

[1] WSA 3 4:387-88; see also Sermon 88.10 (WSA 3 3:425).

SHEPHERDS SHOULD SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE

AUGUSTINE: Let them all be in the one Shepherd and speak with the one voice of the Shepherd, which the sheep may hear and follow their shepherd, not this or that shepherd, but the one Shepherd. And in him let them all speak with one voice, not with conflicting voices. SERMON 46.30. [1]

[1] WSA 3 2:283. Clement speaks of the other sheep as those worthy of another fold and mansion in heaven. See Stromateis 6.14.