this same gospel `palace' (18:15), while the verbal form aulizomai is translated `to lodge' (Matt. 21:17) or `to abide'

(Luke 21:37).

`And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and

there shall be one flock, and one shepherd' (10:16).

`Other sheep'. The fact that the Lord could refer to `other sheep' presupposes the existence and the recognition

of some who already answered to that name.

Much may be said for the beauty and simple dignity of `The order for Morning Prayer' to be used daily

throughout the year, according to the Book of Common Prayer, but no one who desires to obey the principle of

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`Right Division' can fail to see the bias that must ensue by the continual asseveration by Gentile believers today,

that `We are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand' (Psa. 95:7).

When Christ sent out His disciples, to preach the gospel of the kingdom, He differentiated between Israel and the

Gentiles, saying:

`Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: but go rather to the lost

sheep of the house of Israel' (Matt. 10:5,6).

Or, again, when answering the prayer of the Syro-phenician woman, the Saviour said:

`I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel' (Matt. 15:24).

Peter was commissioned to feed the Lord's sheep, and he addresses his epistles to the dispersed of Israel, not to

the Gentile churches.

While this would be commonly accepted doctrine among the Lord's hearers, He indicates that there were others

who while certainly not of `this FOLD' were destined to make up `one FLOCK'. As these `other sheep' were not of the

fold of Israel and as this revelation is found in that gospel which has the world as its sphere, the period of Israel's

rejection as its period, and was written for non-Jewish readers, these other sheep must be made up of Gentile

Members of the Church of the Mystery are neither called sheep, nor will they ever be brought into a union with

the `fold' of Israel to form one `flock'. The ministry of John's Gospel is, however, at work today in a wider circle

than that covered by the dispensation of the mystery, and many a Gentile believer, who has neither attained to the

standing of `Romans', nor received the calling of `Ephesians', will find himself one of a fold which Israel would not

recognize, even as there are others from among the Gentiles who will be gathered out of the highways and byways,

to sit down as guests at the marriage supper of the Lamb, though this honour was originally extended to Israel only

(Matt. 22:1-14).

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Asseveration = a solemn statement.