Shepherd
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages · cited 4 times in 2 works
also in the atlas: Shepherd the figure
shepherd · shepherds · the shepherds
spoken of as
1 expressionShepherds2 mentions
De Carne Christi (Latin) · De Pudicitia (Latin)
Rather let the shepherds keep their flocks;
in the texts
De Carne Christi
The shepherds present in the nativity narrative visited by the angelic multitude.
Rather let the shepherds keep their flocks;
De Pudicitia
Negligent shepherds condemned by Ezekiel, applied to lax church discipline.
In short, if you remember the prophets, when the shepherds are rebuked, it is, I think, the voice of Ezekiel:
Nāradasmṛti
A herder of goats or sheep, liable for losses to predators when penned animals are unguarded.
If a wolf attacks penned goats or sheep and the shepherd does not come to their aid, whatever the wolf kills in that attack, the fault is the shepherd's.
A shepherd is not obliged to make good what is carried off by thieves, provided he raises an alarm and reports it to his master at the proper place and time.
But of those that are not penned and are grazing together in the forest, if a wolf leaps upon one and kills it, the shepherd is not at fault there.