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Therefore it is said of every man who has lost the dignity of the image and reason; and, "He who being in honor did not understand, has been compared to the senseless beasts and was made like them;" But the Jews, having enjoyed so much honor, not only becoming rational, but also being called the people of God, these indeed, he says, have appeared more irrational than irrational beasts, not knowing the master, as an ox does. For a natural instinct knows him. Nor, as a donkey, the manger of its Lord. 1832 For the donkey, even if it does not know its master, nevertheless hastens to the place of its manger out of habit. For it recognizes the manger on account of its gluttony, Wherefore, as if the animals were ill-suited to each other, in Deuteronomy he commands not to plow with a calf and a man; that is, you should not yoke the active and industrious part of the soul with the pleasure-loving and passive part. For God is not concerned about oxen. But elsewhere again it is yoked together. For blessed is he who sows beside all waters, where the ox and the donkey tread. That is, the one who by the teaching word rouses the industrious part of the soul, and heals its pleasure-loving part; for the appetitive part, burdened by the weight of sin, is like a burden-bearing donkey. Therefore, he says, they did not know me, the benefactor, the Creator of all. And as great a difference as there is between an ox and a donkey, so great is the difference Israel, who sees God, has in relation to the one who is simply called a people.