The Magistrate as “Shepherd of the People”
Niels Hemmingsen on rulers as shepherds.
Niels Hemmingsen on rulers as shepherds.
Yesterday’s Gospel reading for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, according to the traditional Western lectionary, was Luke 5:1-11: And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him…
Yesterday we looked at the first part of Niels Hemmingsen’s discussion of mercy in his Postil sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity on Luke 6:36-42. There, I noted that…