Dialogue

 1 Intro|    from the human herdsman or shepherd: (3) and besides our fable,
 2 Intro|   distinguished the political shepherd from his rivals. No one
 3 Intro|  prerogatives of the ordinary shepherd, who on all hands is admitted
 4 Intro|      his flock. But the royal shepherd has numberless competitors,
 5 Intro|    only the image of a divine shepherd, whereas the statesmen and
 6 Intro|     the human from the divine shepherd or manager. Then we may
 7 State|       The king is clearly the shepherd of a polled herd, who have
 8 State|     other claimants to be the shepherd and rearer of the human
 9 State|      those of whom he was the shepherd; neither was there any violence,
10 State|    days God himself was their shepherd, and ruled over them, just
11 State|      generation, we told of a shepherd of a human flock who belonged
12 State| others are rivals of the true shepherd who is the object of our
13 State|   that the form of the divine shepherd is even higher than that
14 State|      whether, like the divine shepherd, they are above their subjects
15 State|      by separating the divine shepherd from the human guardian