The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
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Jerome
AD 420
His mother laid him in a manger. Joseph did not dare to touch him, for he knew he had not been begotten of him. In awe, he rejoiced at a son, but he did not dare to touch the Son.… Why in a manger? That the prophecy of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled.
