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New shepherd guards the flock (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



 		Keywords
shepherds
Period
4th century CE
Byzantine Empire 		Channel
Christian-Syriac poets

Text
Ephrem Syrus, Carmina Nisibena 20.3:
For a new shepherd it is right to guard the flock in a new way, to know what is its number and see what is its need. This is the flock bought with the blood of that Chief Shepherd. Call and review the sheep by name, for this is the flock whose name is written and whose reckoning is in the Book of Life. Blessed be he who will demand its number!

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Ephrem Syrus, Carmina Nisibena 20.3

Bibliography

Murray 1975, 189Murray, Robert. Symbols of Church and Kingdom. A Study in Early Syriac Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1975.

Amar Annus


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