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Joh 10:10. Ἵνα κλέψῃ, that he may steal) That is peculiarly the act of a thief. There follow worse things. A thief, 1) steals for the sake of his own advantage: 2) he inflicts loss on others, a) by killing the sheep, b) by destroying the remainder of their food. There is a climax in the division, not in the subdivision: ἀπώλεια, the destruction caused by a thief, is not spiritual, but civil; but a spiritual injury is metaphorically described by it, just as by theft and murder.-καὶ θύσῃ and that he may kill) In antithesis to life.-καὶ ἀπολέσῃ, and that he may destroy) In antithesis to abundance [περισσόν]: concerning which see Psa 23:1, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want,”