Ingatherer

I think that Jesus is a gatherer in of human misery. It was to be such an ingatherer that he came on earth — that was his one object; to fit himself for that he became man at all, and lived, and died.

The Wind in sooth is an ingatherer. When fire goes out, it sinks into the Wind. When the sun goes down, it sinks into the Wind.

Implicit in the notion of Israel as being the 'ingatherer of the exiles' is the idea that there is a larger political community beyond its borders.