The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats and “Forgive them, Father. They know not what they do.”

The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats is about the judgment of “the nations” (or “goyim” to use the Hebraism that lies behind that translation.  It is a term that refers to those “outside the covenant people”.  For Jews, it meant Gentiles.  For Christians, its meanng shifts to “those outside the household of faith”. […]