The Sheepfold

Dear Editor of the Question Box Depart­ment: I would like to ask you a few things about that beautiful and rich passage of Scripture, namely, John 10, where our Lord appears under the figure of The Good Shepherd. To what do you understand the “sheepfold” of verse 1 to refer? If that is understood to be “the Kingdom of Heaven”, how must we explain that “thieves and robbers climb in some other way than the door” (vs. 1)? And also the state­ment that Christ “leadeth His own sheep out” (vs. 3)....