For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the grain. Does God care for oxen?
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
But the new law's wont was to point to clemency, and to convert to tranquillity the pristine ferocity of "glaives "and "lances "and to remodel the pristine execution of "war "upon the rivals and foes of the law into the pacific actions of "ploughing "and "tilling "the land.
Interprets the law which allows an unmuzzled mouth to the oxen that tread out the corn, not of cattle, but of ourselves;.
What was the use, however, of adducing the Creator's, which he was destroying? It was vain to do so; for his god had no such authority! (The apostle) says: "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn"
