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Joh_10:5. Ἀλλοτρίῳ δὲ , etc.] A stranger, however, who does not belong to them as their shepherd. It is not exclusively the ἀναβαίνοντες ἀλλαχ . of Joh_10:1 who are here intended, but every other one in general who is not their shepherd. The fellowship referred to in Joh_10:3-4 is portrayed according to its exclusive nature.
οὐ μὴ ἀκολουθήσουσιν ] future (see the critical note), as in Joh_8:12. It is not prophetical (Lampe: of the “cathedra Mosis plane deserenda,” comp. Luthardt), but describes what will be the result of the intervention of a stranger. The sheep will certainly not follow, but flee from him.