Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume I

Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 177

" And that expression, ' binding his foal to the vine, and the ass's foal to the vine tendril,' was a declaring beforehand both of the works wrought by Him at His first advent, and also of that belief in Him which the nations would re- pose. For they were like an unharnessed foal, which was not bearing a yoke on its neck, until this Christ came, and sent His disciples to in- struct them ; and they bore the yoke of His word, and yielded the neck to endure all [hard- ships], for the sake of the good things promised by Himself, and expected by them. And truly our Lord Jesus Christ, when He intended to go into Jerusalem, requested His disciples to bring Him a certain ass, along with its foal, which was bound in an entrance of a village called Beth- phage ; and having seated Himself on it. He 5 Or, " in comparison of." ' Gen. xlix. 8-12. ' a(j>' ov ; many translated " under whom," as if (' ov. This would be erroneous. Conjectured also ivye for inadiv. 2 22 DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO.