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Aaron dies upon Hor; Moses dies upon Pisgah; the teachers, the leaders, the guides, the under-shepherds, pass away one by one; and if this Christ be but a Man and a Teacher, He too will pass away.
Accordingly, we find from Acts xiv. 23, xx. 17; Tit. i. 5; and 1 Pet. v. 1, that soon after the saints had been converted, and had associated together in a church character, Elders were appointed to take the rule over them and to fulfil the office of under-shepherds.
I was wrong to ask the question. The affair is simply none of my business." "But it is, Mr. Griffin. I would not want you, a stranger perhaps not even a Catholic to keep in your mind the idea that a Catholic bishop is cold and heartless in his dealings with his flock, and particularly with his under-shepherds."
For this no societies or new ecclesiastical machinery will be required. The force to do this work is already enlisted in the communicant membership of our one hundred and fifty organized congregations. We have approximately 60,000 communicants. These are our under-shepherds whose business it is to aid the pastor in searching for "the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
So Jacob, dying, said, 'I die, but God shall be with you. So Moses, dying, said, 'The Lord hath said unto me, thou shalt not go over this Jordan. The Lord thy God, He will go before thee. Not even Paul is indispensable. The under-shepherds die, the Shepherd lives, and watches against wolves and dangers.
The old man had hot blood in his veins yet, as the under-shepherds could testify. "The sight of your pretty face, Senorita Margarita," answered Juan quickly, cocking his eye at her, rising to his feet, and making a mock bow towards the window. "He! he! Senorita, indeed!" chuckled Margarita's mother, old Marda the cook.
From the following passages compared together, Matth. xxiv. 45, Luke xii. 42. Accordingly, we find from Acts xiv. 23, xx. 17, Tit. i. 5, and 1 Pet. v. 1, that soon after the saints had been converted, and had associated together in a Church character, Elders were appointed to take the rule over them and to fulfil the office of under-shepherds.
Soon a host of ministers were raised up, and these also possessed divine authority for their representative lines of work. The ministers were under-shepherds appointed to feed the flock of God, for which service they had to give account to the great Shepherd.
The chief thought of the verse is that the Church is God's flock, and that the death of Jesus has bought it for His, and that negligent under-shepherds are therefore guilty of grievous sin. The Apostle had premonitions of the future for the Church as well as for himself, and the horizons were dark in both outlooks.
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