Fold and Flock

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The fold in John 10 means the Jewish enclosure formed by God’s law and ordinances, out of which the rejected Christ was then leading His sheep, above all, in His death; after which He would form one flock, composed of believing Jews and Gentiles, His “other Sheep which were not of this fold” or Jewish people (ver. 16). One fold is wrong; it should unquestionably be rendered “one flock” as is now well known. There is no longer anything recognized of God as one fold (as Romanism). still less, many folds as Protestantism, but one flock, one shepherd, or as the Apostle puta it, “One body and one Spirit.”