For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
For - why they need healing (1 Peter 2:24).
Now - that the atonement for all has been made, the foundation is laid for individual conversion: so 'ye have become converted to,' etc.
Shepherd and Bishop. The designation of the Church's pastors and elders belongs in its fullest sense to the great Head, "the good Shepherd." As the "bishop" oversees (as episkopos (G1985) means), so "the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous" (1 Peter 3:12). He gives us His Spirit, feeding and guiding us by His Word. "Shepherd" (Parnas) often applied to kings: of the compound Pharnabazus.