Lost And Found

Eratis sicut overs errantes... Quomodo et oves dicit et errantes, cum hi qui in errore vitam ducunt, haedorum potius quam ovium nomine censantur, nisi quia novit Dominus qui sunt ejus, qui et multos diu male converantes susinet, quos tamen in ovium suarum numero salvandos esse praevidet? Sancta Beda, In Primam Epistolam Sancti Petri, Caput II Source: Migne PL 93.54c

You were wandering like lost sheep... 1 Why does he say that they are both sheep and lost, when they who lived in error, should be reckoned by the name of goats rather than sheep, 2 unless because the Lord knows those who are his, 3 He who even endures many while they live wickedly, those who yet He foresees shall be saved as one of the number of his sheep? Saint Bede, Commentary on the First Letter of Peter, Chap 2 1 1 Pet 2.25 2 Mt 25.33 3 2 Tim 2.19, Numb 16.5