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The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep.
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Verse 13. Every bishop and pastor is bound to abide with his flock in the time of danger, and persecution, except himself be personally sought for, rather than his flock, or the flock itself forsake him. In such cases the pastor may fly, as the apostles did, and S. Athanasius and others. Saint Athanasius Apol. de suâ fugâ. Saint Augustine ep. 180.
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