I will raise up - God supplies the strength or wisdom which people abuse for sin. He, in His Providence, disposes the circumstances…

The great difficulty of this passage, which is metaphorical and symbolic throughout, is that hardly any clue to its interpretation is given to us. …

These were the shepherds to whom Israel was left when they rejected Christ. They did nothing for the people; they were a curse to them, and they th…

For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land
Not in the land of Judea, but in the Roman empire; and so not Herod,…

God, having shown the misery of this people in their being justly left by the Good Shepherd, shows their further misery in being abused by foolish …