But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Until Christ's death, which broke down the middle wall of partition (), the Gospel commission was to the Jews only, who, though the visible people of God, were "lost sheep," not merely in the sense in which all sinners are (; ; with ), but as abandoned and left to wander from the right way by faithless shepherds, (; ; Ezekiel 34:2, etc)

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