I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
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Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
By the name horse is understood temporal dignity, as Solomon witnesses, who says, “I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.” For everyone who sins is the servant of sin, and servants are upon horses when sinners are elated with the dignities of the present life. .