And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Ver. 15. And I will give you pastors according to my heart.] God gives faithful pastors oft for the sake of but a few that are there to be converted: Et vilissimus pagus est palatium eburneum, in quo est pastor et credentes aliqui, saith Luther, a The poorest village is an ivory palace, if there be but in it a pastor and some few believers. Such pastors as God here promiseth (and more largely describeth, Jer 23:1-40 Eze 34:1-31), are special gifts of God: "I will give you pastors." David, after he had discomfited the Amalekites, sent gifts to his friends in Judah. 1Sa 30:26 Great Alexander, when he had prevailed at the river Granicus, and was now ascended into the upper parts of Asia, sent back many gifts to assure them of his love in Macedonia. The like doth God to his Church by sending them pastors, with such two adjuncts as are here - (1.) Adherent, his own approbation; (2.) Inherent, skill to teach the people. See Ephesians 4:8. See Trapp on " Eph 4:8 "
a Luth., tom. iii. p. 81.