315、至于牧师，他们应当教导人们通往天堂的道路，还应当引导他们。牧师应当照其取自圣言的教会教义来教导他们、引导他们，好叫他们照该教义生活。教导真理，通过真理把人们引向生活的良善，从而把他们带到主面前的牧师是好牧人。然而，那些虽施行教导，却不把人们引向生活的良善，从而不把他们带到主面前的人是坏牧人。
315、至于牧师，他们应该教导人们通往天堂的道路，并且还要带领他们走这条路。牧师应该根据出自圣言的教义教导信徒，并引导他们照此去生活。教导真理的牧师，循着真理引导人们在生命中践行良善，从而归向主，这样的牧师是羊的好牧人。如果牧师教导真理，却不把信徒的生命引向良善，并因此没有归向主，这样的牧师是邪恶的牧人。
315. As for priests, they are to teach people the way to heaven and are also to lead them on that path. They are to teach them according to the body of teaching of their church drawn from the Word and are to lead them to live by that teaching. Priests who teach what is true and who by means of truths lead people to practice goodness in their lives and therefore lead them to the Lord are good shepherds of their sheep; priests who teach but do not lead people to practice goodness in their lives and therefore do not lead them to the Lord are bad shepherds.
315. Ministers should teach us the way to heaven, and should also lead us there. They should teach us in harmony with their religious philosophy, which comes from the Bible, and lead us so that we will live according to it.
Ministers who teach what is true, and in that way lead people to live a good life — which means they are leading us toward the Lord — are good shepherds. But ministers who only teach, and do not lead people to live a good life — toward the Lord — are bad shepherds.
315. As for priests, their duty is to teach people the way to heaven, and also to guide them. They must teach them in accordance with the teaching their church derives from the Word, and guide them to live in accordance with it. Priests who teach truths and by their means guide people to lead good lives, and so bring them to the Lord, are good shepherds. Those, however, who teach, but do not guide people to lead good lives, and so bring them to the Lord, are bad shepherds.
315. With respect to priests they ought to teach men the way to heaven, and should also lead them. They ought to teach them according to the doctrine of their Church from the Word; and should lead them so that they live according to that doctrine. The priests who teach truths, and through them lead to the good of life, and thus to the Lord, are the good shepherds of the sheep; but those who teach, and do not lead to the good of life, and thus to the Lord, are bad shepherds.
315. With respect to the priests, they ought to teach men the way to heaven, and also to lead them; they ought to teach them according to the doctrine of their church from the Word, and to lead them to live according to it. Priests who teach truths, and thereby lead to the good of life, and so to the Lord, are good shepherds of the sheep; but they who teach and do not lead to the good of life, and so to the Lord, are evil shepherds.
315. Quod concernit sacerdotes, docebunt illi homines viam ad caelum, et quoque ducent illos; docebunt illos secundum ecclesiae suae doctrinam ex Verbo, ac ducent ut vivant secundum illam. Sacerdotes qui docent vera, et per illa ducunt ad bonum vitae, et sic ad Dominum, sunt pastores ovium boni; qui autem docent, et non ducunt ad bonum vitae, et sic ad Dominum, sunt pastores mali.