16. Having referred to His death for men, Christ goes on to speak of the call of the Gentiles, thereby indicating the efficacy of His sacrifice for all, whether Jews or Gentiles. *And other sheep I have, that are not of this fold.* The other sheep were those Gentiles who were outside the Jewish Church, but were to be brought within the Church of Christ, so that there might be one fold (rather _flock_), and one shepherd. Strictly speaking, the Gentiles except very few were not yet His sheep, but those who were to obey the call are spoken of as such by anticipation, and because in the designs of God it was decreed that they should be efficaciously called to the faith. *And there shall be one fold and one shepherd.* The “one fold,” or rather “one flock” (ποίμνη), distinctly implies the unity of Christ’s Church, and the “one shepherd,” is Jesus Christ Himself as invisible head, with the Pope His representative as visible head.(73) We have therefore three very important declarations in this verse. (1) The faith was to be preached to the Gentiles; (2) Christ was to have but one flock composed alike of Jews and Gentiles; (3) that one flock was to have one supreme visible head. Some, like Mald., think that the expression “_this_ fold” implies that there was another fold, that is to say, those who were to be called from among the Gentiles. But this does not necessarily follow, as the contrast may be, and we believe is, not between a fold of the Jews and a fold of the Gentiles, but between the fold of the Jewish Church which excluded the Gentiles, and the fold of the Christian Church which was to include them. 17. Propterea me diligit 17. Therefore doth the Father Pater: quia ego pono animam love me: because I lay down my meam, ut iterum sumam eam. life that I may take it again. 17. After the parenthetical statement in verse 16, Christ takes up what He had said in the end of verse 15, about laying down His life. *Therefore*: that is to say, because I lay down My life, and so obey Him, the Father loveth Me. *That I may take it again.* “Ut” (ἱνα) cannot be taken to express a purpose here, but means either _so as_, as Mald. holds, or, _on the condition that_, as Patrizzi. The supreme dominion which Christ here claims over His own life and death, is a proof of His Divinity. 18. Nemo tollit eam a me: sed 18. No man taketh it away from ego pono eam a meipso, et me: but I lay it down of potestatem habeo ponendi eam: myself, and I have power to et potestatem habeo iterum lay it down; and I have power sumendi eam. Hoc mandatum to take it up again. This accepi a Patre meo. commandment have I received of my Father.