What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness. Instead of saying, ''Tis but one; let it go; enough remain,' will he not bend all his attention and care, as it were, to the one object of recovering the lost sheep?
And go after that which is lost, until he find it? - pointing to all the diversified means which God sets in operation for recovering sinners, and the patience and perseverance with which He continues to ply them.