The Ecclesia Today Is Not the “Bride” or “Sheep”

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The frequent picturing of Israel as “sheep” … features a point similar to the figure of the “bride …” Both figures are used freely in the Hebrew Scriptures and in the Greek Jewish portions of the apostolic writings. Neither figure is used as illustrative of the Ecclesia of the present dispensation in any epistle written by Paul.

More than that: the word “sheep” is not even used by Paul in any letter bearing his name, except in Romans 8:36, which quotes Isaiah in describing our Lord as a Sheep for the slaughter. The same is true of the word “shepherd.” It is used only once by Paul in his epistles, and then in the sense of “pastors” (Ephesians 4:11), but the usage of both words in the Gospels is very frequent.

F.H. Robison (1885-1932)
Are Bride and Body Identical? pp. 30-31
Bible Student’s Press
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