Ezekiel 34:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. And they were scattered - There was no discipline kept up; and the flock, the Church, became disorganized, and separated from each other, both in affection and fellowship. And the consequence was, the grievous wolves, false and worldly interested teachers, seized on and made a prey of them. Of the communion of saints such shepherds know nothing, farther than that it makes a part of the common creed.