With judgment - It is characteristic of Yahweh as a shepherd that He judges between sheep and sheep, rejecting the proud and accepting the p…

The fat and the strong. —While fatness is in general an emblem of prosperity, it is frequently used in Scripture, as here, for tha…

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, –

Ah, one hardly thinks, perhaps, that there could be …

And I will seek that which was lost
As all men are in Adam, and through his fall, and by their own actual transgress…

The Lord declared that He intended mercy towards the scattered flock. Doubtless this, in the first place, referred to the restoration of the Jews. …