Ox and ass
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the ass · the ox
in the texts
Stromata
Working animals invoked in laws forbidding muzzling a threshing ox and forbidding the unequal yoking of ox and ass, read allegorically as clean and unclean.
And it forbids yoking together for the ploughing of the earth an ox and an ass, perhaps aiming at what is unsuited in the animals, but showing at the same time that one must wrong none of the other nations and bring them under the yoke, having nothing to charge except the difference of race, which is without responsibility, springing neither from vice nor from vice.
Adversus Marcionem
Animals cited from Isaiah as examples that recognize their owner, unlike Israel who did not know the Creator.
the ox knew his owner and the ass his master's crib, but Israel has not known me, and the people has not understood me.