SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:10
El ladrn no viene sino para hurtar, y matar, y destruir las ovejas ; yo he venido para que tengan vida, y para que la tengan en abundancia.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - John 10:10
Verse 10. But for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy] Those who enter into the priesthood that they may enjoy the revenues of the Church, are the basest and vilest of thieves and murderers. Their ungodly conduct is a snare to the simple, and the occasion of much scandal to the cause of Christ. Their doctrine is deadly; they are not commissioned by Christ, and therefore they cannot profit the people. Their character is well pointed out by the Prophet Ezekiel, Ezek. xxxiv. 2, &c. Wo be to the shepherds of Israel, that do feed themselves! Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool; ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock, &c, How can worldly-minded, hireling, fox-hunting, and card-playing priests read these words of the Lord, without trembling to the center of their souls! Wo to those parents who bring up their children merely for Church honours and emoluments! Suppose a person have all the Church's revenues, if he have God's wo, how miserable is his portion! Let none apply this censure to any one class of preachers, exclusively. That they might have life] My doctrine tends to life, because it is the true doctrine-that of the false and bad shepherds tends to death, because it neither comes from nor can lead to that God who is the fountain of life.
Might have it more abundantly.] That they might have an abundance, meaning either of life, or of all necessary good things; greater felicity than ever was enjoyed under any period of the Mosaic dispensation; and it is certain that Christians have enjoyed greater blessings and privileges than were ever possessed by the Jews, even in the promised land. If perisson be considered the accusative fem. Attic, agreeing with zwhn, (see Parkhurst,) then it signifies more abundant life; that is, eternal life; or spiritual blessings much greater than had ever yet been communicated to man, preparing for a glorious immortality. Jesus is come that men may have abundance; abundance of grace, peace, love, life, and salvation.
Blessed be Jesus.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. The thief cometh not but for to steal , etc.] That is his first and principal view; to steal, is to invade, seize, and carry away anothers property. Such teachers that come not in by the right door, or with a divine commission, seek to deceive, and carry away the sheep of Christ from him, though they are not able to do it; and to steal away their hearts from him, as Absalom stole the hearts of the people from their rightful lord and sovereign, David his father; and to subject them to themselves, that they might lord it over them, and make a property of them, as the Pharisees did, who, under a pretence of long prayers, devoured widows houses. And to kill and to destroy ; either the souls of men by their false doctrines, which eat as doth a cancer, and poison the minds of men, and slay the souls that should not die, subverting the faith of nominal professors, though they cannot destroy any of the true sheep of Christ; or the bodies of the saints, by their oppression, tyranny, and persecution, who are killed all the day long for the sake of Christ, and are accounted as sheep for the slaughter, by these men, they thinking that by so doing they do God good service. I am come that they might have life ; that the sheep might have life, or the elect of God might have life, both spiritual and eternal; who, as the rest of mankind, are by nature dead in trespasses and sins, and liable in themselves to an eternal death: Christ came into this world in human nature, to give his flesh, his body, his whole human nature, soul and body, for the life of these persons, or that they might live spiritually here, and eternally hereafter; and so the Arabic version renders it, that they might have eternal life; Nonnus calls it, a life to come; which is in Christ, and the gift of God through him; and which he gives to all his sheep, and has a power to give to as many as the Father has given him: and that they might have [it] more abundantly ; or, as the Syriac version reads, something more abundant; that is, than life; meaning not merely than the life of wicked men, whose blessings are curses to them; or than their own life, only in the present state of things; or than long life promised under the law to the observers of it; but even than the life Adam had in innocence, which was but a natural and moral, not a spiritual life, or that life which is hid with Christ in God; and also than that which angels live in heaven, which is the life of servants, and not of sons: or else the sense is, that Christ came that his people might have eternal life, with more abundant evidence of it than was under the former dispensation, and have stronger faith in it, and a more lively hope of it: or, as the words may be rendered, and that they might have an abundance: besides life, might have an abundance of grace from Christ, all spiritual blessings in him now, and all fulness of joy, glory, and happiness hereafter.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-18 - Christ is a good Shepherd; many who were not thieves, yet were careles in their duty, and by their neglect the flock was much hurt. Ba principles are the root of bad practices. The Lord Jesus knows whom he has chosen, and is sure of them; they also know whom they have trusted and are sure of Him. See here the grace of Christ; since none coul demand his life of him, he laid it down of himself for our redemption He offered himself to be the Saviour; Lo, I come. And the necessity of our case calling for it, he offered himself for the Sacrifice. He wa both the offerer and the offering, so that his laying down his life wa his offering up himself. From hence it is plain, that he died in the place and stead of men; to obtain their being set free from the punishment of sin, to obtain the pardon of their sin; and that his death should obtain that pardon. Our Lord laid not his life down for his doctrine, but for his sheep.
Greek Textus Receptus
ο 3588 T-NSM κλεπτης 2812 N-NSM ουκ 3756 PRT-N ερχεται 2064 5736 V-PNI-3S ει 1487 COND μη 3361 PRT-N ινα 2443 CONJ κλεψη 2813 5661 V-AAS-3S και 2532 CONJ θυση 2380 5661 V-AAS-3S και 2532 CONJ απολεση 622 5661 V-AAS-3S εγω 1473 P-1NS ηλθον 2064 5627 V-2AAI-1S ινα 2443 CONJ ζωην 2222 N-ASF εχωσιν 2192 5725 V-PAS-3P και 2532 CONJ περισσον 4053 A-ASN 4053 ADV εχωσιν 2192 5725 V-PAS-3P
Vincent's NT Word Studies
10. The thief (o klepthv). Christ puts Himself in contrast with the meaner criminal.I am come (hlqon). More correctly, I came. I am come would be the perfect tense.
More abundantly (perisson). Literally, may have abundance.
