10. In reference to the pastor, he who enters not through Christ (and who is therefore a thief, verse 1), cometh not but to steal, &c. This verse effects the transition from Christ as door to Christ as shepherd. He here sets Himself in opposition to the thief, and so passes on naturally to another parable in which He speaks of Himself as shepherd. 11. Ego sum pastor bonus. 11. I am the good shepherd. Bonus pastor animam suam dat The good shepherd giveth his pro ovibus suis. life for his sheep. 11. *I am the good shepherd* (ὁ ποιμὴν ὁ καλός); that particular shepherd foretold by the prophets (Ezech. xxxiv. 11, 15, 16, 22, 23; Zach. xi. 17; Isai. xl. 11). There is no difficulty in the fact that Christ now calls Himself the shepherd, whereas in the preceding verses He has spoken of Himself as the door of the sheepfold. For we hold that a new parable begins in verse 11, and it is obviously open to Christ to use a new metaphor, in which to express under a new aspect His relations to the faithful. See xv. 1, where, in the metaphor of the true vine, His relations with the faithful are set forth under yet another aspect. *The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.* This is to be understood, of Christ, and is the first note of this great Shepherd. 12. Mercenarius autem et qui 12. But the hireling, and he non est pastor, cuius non sunt that is not the shepherd, oves propriae, videt lupum whose own the sheep are not, venientem, et dimittit oves, seeth the wolf coming, and et fugit: et lupus rapit, et leaveth the sheep, and flieth: dispergit oves: and the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep. 12. *The hireling* is most probably a pastor who has a divine mission like the Pharisees (Matt. xxiii. 2) which, however, he abuses for base motives of self‐interest. Such an one, and also he who has no true mission, flieth at the approach of _any danger_, the particular danger from the wolf being put to represent danger in general. 13. Mercenarius autem fugit, 13. And the hireling flieth, quia mercenarius est, et non because he is a hireling; and pertinet ad eum de ovibus. he hath no care for the sheep. 13. The last word of verse 12 and the first three words of verse 13 in the Vulgate: “Oves: Mercenarius autem fugit,” are regarded by many as not genuine; the remaining portion of verse 13 is to be connected with “flieth” of verse 12, in case they are omitted. 14. Ego sum pastor bonus: et 14. I am the good shepherd; cognosco meas, et cognoscunt and I know mine, and mine know me meae. me.