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{3Jο 9, 39}3Instead of for a greater punishment; for those who condemned him as a sinner are themselves condemned as sinners. 325 {3Jο 10, 1}3A thief is one who by force seizes for himself the honor not given to him, which he is not able to receive, unless he believes in Christ; or rather, a thief is one who does not use the teaching established from the scriptures, but comes by another, unestablished way. For this reason he also said "from another place," in order to signify the scribes who teach "the commandments of men" and transgress the law. 326 {3Jο 10, 1}3When the faithful hear from orthodox teachers the divine teachings of the scriptures, they receive it as some kind of nourishment, but as many as call Christ a deceiver have been cast out from the rank of the sheep. 327 {3Jο 10, 4}3While it is the custom of shepherds to walk behind the sheep, this one walks before the sheep, showing that he himself leads all to the truth. 328 {3Jο 10, 5}3He calls strangers those associated with Theudas, whose hearers were scattered, and the other false christs. 329 {3Jο 10, 6}3He calls the saying a proverb on account of the meanings of two things being understood <di'> through one saying. 330 {3Jο 10, 7}3As God, knowing they did not understand, he clarifies the saying to them again, so that even in this way they might be benefited. 331 {3Jο 10, 7-8}3He is a door in that he shuts in the sheep, but keeps out and exposes the thieves; either that through faith in him alone we enter to the Father and are made his own, or that through him we come to rule over peoples, or that he receives the worthy into the holy sheepfold, but to the unworthy he closes the entrance. 332 {3Jο 10, 8}3When the Lord said "all," he does not mean the holy prophets, but those who pretend to be good and have crept in to rule peoples, whom those under their authority did not even endure; that is, he means the false christs or those associated with Theudas. 333 {3Jο 10, 9}3The faithful, as through a door, through Christ, are escorted into eternal life. 334 {3Jο 10, 9}3Pasture is the divine teachings, which the faithful enjoy. The door is the word of God leading into the knowledge of God; and those who enter through him come to be outside the world. 335 {3Jο 10, 9}3By pasture he means security, which came to pass in the case of the apostles, who went in and went out as lords of the inhabited world, and no one was able to cast them out. 336 {3Jο 10, 10}3By "more abundantly" he means the kingdom of heaven, which he calls life because the name was familiar to them; alluding to the resurrection, he said "abundantly." Or by "abundantly" he means the participation in the Spirit, which only the saints enjoy, while all, both evil and good, are raised in common; for only the saints are changed into glory. Here he discourses concerning the saving passion to which he came willingly. 337 {3Jο 10, 10}3When all were being slaughtered and perishing, Christ came to save and to give life. 339 {3Jο 10, 12}3As a hireling who neglects the sheep he names each of the rulers of the people, since they were doing nothing for the benefit of the peoples, but treated them as belonging to others; for they were not their own, for which reason they were not grieved at the destruction of the peoples. 342 {3ςο 10, 14}3We do not know God in any other way, unless we are first known by him. For this reason he also set it first; for first he himself became intimate with us by becoming man, and so also we with him. 343 {3Jο 10, 14}3And the saying "I am the shepherd" he said this on account of those who disbelieved; for not all the sheep heard him, but those that were known by him and knew him. 344 {3Jο 10, 15}3Because of the sameness of nature, as consubstantial with the Father, I know him and am known by him. 345 {3Jο 10, 15}3From the fact that he lays down his own life, so that they may be saved, he proves himself to be a good shepherd and not a deceiver, such as were those associated with Theudas; for he offered himself as a ransom for all. 346 {3Jο 10, 15}3By saying "I lay down," he showed that he suffered willingly. 347 {3Jο 10, 16}3He said this on account of those who disbelieved; for not all the sheep heard him, but those that were known by him and knew him. 348 {3Jο 10, 16}3All are indeed sheep, but because of the difference of their disposition he says they are not of the sheepfold

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{3Jο 9, 39}3Ἀντὶ τοῦ εἰς μείζονα κόλασιν· οἱ γὰρ καταδικάσαντες αὐτὸν ὡς ἁμαρτωλὸν αὐτοί εἰσιν ὡς ἁμαρτωλοὶ κατακριθέντες. 325 {3Jο 10, 1}3Κλέπτης ἐστὶν ὁ ἐκ βίας τὴν μὴ δοθεῖσαν αὐτῷ τιμὴν ὑφαρπάζων, ἣν οὐ δύναται λαβεῖν, εἰ μὴ ὁ εἰς Χριστὸν πιστεύων ἤτοι κλέπτης ἐστὶν ὁ μὴ τῇ νενομισμένῃ ἀπὸ τῶν γραφῶν χρώμενος διδασκαλίᾳ, ἀλλὰ δι' ἑτέρας μὴ νενομισμένης ἐρχόμενος. διὸ καὶ εἶπε τὸ ἀλλαχόθεν, ἵνα καὶ τοὺς γραμματεῖς σημαίνῃ τοὺς διδάσκοντας «τὰ ἐντάλματα τῶν ἀνθρώπων» καὶ παραβαίνοντας τὸν νόμον. 326 {3Jο 10, 1}3Ὅταν ἀκούσωσιν οἱ πιστοὶ παρὰ τῶν ὀρθῶν διδασκάλων τὰ θεῖα διδάγ ματα τῶν γραφῶν, ὥσπερ τινὰ τροφὴν δέχονται, ὅσοι δὲ πλάνον καλοῦσι τὸνΧριστόν, τῆς τῶν προβάτων ἐκβέβληνται τάξεως. 327 {3Jο 10, 4}3Ἔθος ἐχόντων τῶν ποιμένων ὀπίσω τῶν προβάτων περιπατεῖν, ἔμπρο σθεν τῶν προβάτων οὗτος περιπατεῖ δεικνύς, ὅτι αὐτὸς ὁδηγεῖ πάντας πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν. 328 {3Jο 10, 5}3Ἀλλοτρίους λέγει τοὺς περὶ Θευδᾶν, ὧν οἱ ἀκούσαντες διεσκορπίσθησαν, καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς ψευδοχρίστους. 329 {3Jο 10, 6}3Παροιμίαν καλεῖ τὸν λόγον διὰ τὸ <δι'> ἑνὸς λόγου νοεῖσθαι δύο πραγ μάτων σημασίας. 330 {3Jο 10, 7}3Ὡς θεὸς γνοὺς μὴ νοήσαντας αὐτοὺς ἄνωθεν αὐτοῖς σαφηνίζει τὸν λόγον, ἵνα καὶ οὕτως ὠφεληθῶσιν. 331 {3Jο 10, 7-8}3Θύρα ἐστὶν ὡς ἀποκλείων τὰ πρόβατα, τοὺς δὲ κλέπτας ἀπείργων καὶ ἐλέγχων· ἤτοι ὅτι διὰ μόνης τῆς εἰς αὐτὸν πίστεως εἰσερχόμεθα πρὸς τὸν πατέρα καὶ οἰκειούμεθα αὐτῷ ἢ ὅτι δι' αὐτοῦ ἐρχόμεθα εἰς τὸ κατάρξαι λαῶν ἢ ὅτι τοὺς ἀξίους εἰσδέχεται εἰς τὴν ἱερὰν αὐλήν, τοῖς δὲ ἀναξίοις ἀποκλείει τὴν εἴσοδον. 332 {3Jο 10, 8}3Εἰπὼν ὁ κύριος πάντες οὐ τοὺς ἁγίους λέγει προφήτας, ἀλλὰ τοὺς ὑπο κρινομένους ἀγαθοὺς καὶ ὑπεισελθόντας τὸ ἄρχειν λαῶν, ὧν οὐδὲ ἠνέσχοντο οἱ ὑπὸ χεῖρα ἤτοι τοὺς ψευδοχρίστους λέγει ἢ τοὺς περὶ Θευδᾶν. 333 {3Jο 10, 9}3Οἱ πιστοὶ ὡς διὰ θύρας διὰ Χριστοῦ εἰς τὴν αἰώνιον ζωὴν παραπέμπονται. 334 {3Jο 10, 9}3Νομή ἐστι τὰ θεῖα διδάγματα, ὧν ἀπολαύουσιν οἱ πιστοί. θύρα ἐστὶν ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ λόγος εἰσάγων εἰς θεογνωσίαν· καὶ οἱ δι' αὐτοῦ εἰσελθόντες ἔξω τοῦ κόσμου γίνονται. 335 {3Jο 10, 9}3Νομὴν λέγει τὴν ἀσφάλειαν, ὃ γέγονεν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων, οἵτινες ὡς κύριοι τῆς οἰκουμένης εἰσῄεσαν καὶ ἐξῄεσαν καὶ οὐδεὶς ἴσχυσεν ἐκβαλεῖν. 336 {3Jο 10, 10}3Περισσότερον λέγει τὴν τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλείαν, ἣν ζωὴν καλεῖ διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτοῖς τὸ ὄνομα γνώριμον· τὴν ἀνάστασιν αἰνιττόμενος εἶπεν τὸ περισσόν. ἤτοι τὸ περισσὸν λέγει τὴν τοῦ πνεύματος μέθεξιν, ἧς μόνοι οἱ ἅγιοι ἀπο λαύουσι κοινῶς πάντων ἀνισταμένων πονηρῶν τε καὶ ἀγαθῶν· μόνοι γὰρ οἱ ἅγιοι ἀλλάσσονται εἰς δόξαν. περὶ τοῦ σωτηριώδους ὧδε διαλέγεται πάθους εἰς ὅπερ ἑκὼν ἦλθεν. 337 {3Jο 10, 10}3Πάντων σφαγέντων καὶ ἀπολομένων ἦλθεν ὁ Χριστὸς σῶσαι καὶ ζωὴν δοῦναι. 339 {3Jο 10, 12}3Μισθωτὸν ἀμελοῦντα τῶν προβάτων ἕκαστον τῶν ἀρχόντων τοῦ λαοῦ ὀνομάζει, ἐπειδὴ οὐδὲν ἐποίουν εἰς ὠφέλειαν τῶν λαῶν, ἀλλ' ὡς ἀλλοτρίοις ἐκέχρηντο· οὐ γὰρ ἦσαν αὐτῶν ἴδια, διὸ οὐδὲ ἤχθοντο ἐν τῇ ἀπωλείᾳ τῶν λαῶν. 342 {3ςο 10, 14}3Οὐκ ἄλλως δὲ γιγνώσκομεν τὸν θεόν, εἰ μὴ πρῶτον ἐξ αὐτοῦ γνωσθῶμεν. διὸ καὶ πρῶτον ἐκεῖνος ἔταξε· πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸς οἰκειώθη ἡμῖν γεγονὼς ἄνθρωπος καὶ οὕτω καὶ ἡμεῖς αὐτῷ. 343 {3Jο 10, 14}3Τὸ δὲ ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ποιμὴν διὰ τοὺς ἀπιστήσαντας εἶπε τοῦτο· οὐ γὰρ πάντα τὰ πρόβατα ἤκουσαν αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ τὰ γνωσθέντα ἐξ αὐτοῦ καὶ γνόντα αὐτόν. 344 {3Jο 10, 15}3∆ιὰ ταὐτὸν τῆς φύσεως ὡς ὁμοούσιος τῷ πατρὶ οἶδα αὐτὸν καὶ γινώσκομαι ὑπ' αὐτοῦ. 345 {3Jο 10, 15}3Ἐξ ὧν τίθησι τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ψυχήν, ἵνα σωθῶσιν, συνίστησιν ἑαυτὸν ὄντα ποιμένα καλὸν καὶ οὐ πλάνον, οἷοι ἦσαν οἱ περὶ Θευδᾶν· προσήνεγκεν γὰρ ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ ἁπάντων λύτρον. 346 {3Jο 10, 15}3Εἰπὼν τίθημι ἔδειξεν, ὅτι ἑκὼν ἔπαθεν. 347 {3Jο 10, 16}3Τοῦτο εἶπε διὰ τοὺς ἀπιστήσαντας· οὐ γὰρ πάντα τὰ πρόβατα ἤκουσαν αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ τὰ γνωσθέντα ἐξ αὐτοῦ καὶ γνόντα αὐτόν. 348 {3Jο 10, 16}3Πάντες μέν εἰσι πρόβατα, πλὴν διὰ τὸ τῆς γνώμης διάφορον λέγει μὴ εἶναι αὐτὰ ἐκ τῆς αὐλῆς