Shepherd
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
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.
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.
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.