ACC ~ John 10 v4

SHEEP NEED A SHEPHERD

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: In our sickness we need a Savior, in our wanderings a guide, in our blindness someone to show us the light, in our thirst the fountain of living water that quenches forever the thirst of those who drink from it. We dead people need life, we sheep need a shepherd, we children need a teacher, the whole world needs Jesus! CHRIST THE EDUCATOR 1.9.83. [1]

[1] JFA 62.

SHEPHERDS USUALLY FOLLOW SHEEP

CHRYSOSTOM: Shepherds always follow behind their sheep, but he, on the contrary, goes before them to show that he would lead all of them to the truth. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 59.3. [1]

[1] NPNF 1 14:214**.

CHRIST LEADS SHEEP FROM DEATH

AUGUSTINE: And who has gone before the sheep to the place where they are to follow him but he who rising from the dead, dies no more…. And who when he was seen here in the flesh said, “Father, I will also that they whom you have given me be with me where I am”? [1] TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 45.14. [2]

[1] Jn 17:24.

[2] NPNF 1 7:255**.

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