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Originally Posted by OBW
It might be interesting to think on Jesus as even more like us that we have formerly thought — even he needs a shepherd — yet the parables would suggest that this is taking it a little too far.
And I don't see shepherds as being made by being first shepherded themselves... those who shepherd were not once sheep. They are of different stuff and are trained to shepherd.
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The Father is the husbandman, Jesus is the vine. The Father is the Shepherd, Jesus is the submissive Lamb of God. I think that to miss Jesus "in the days of his flesh" is to miss our way out of the fall.
We were constituted flesh, removed from our Holy Father due to disobedience, so He who loved us took upon Himself blood and flesh and came here to save. We see the obedient, cooperative Lamb of God in great detail in the Psalms, and Psalm 23 is not an exception, but is rather an exemplar.