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Fragment 21

And this man was riding upon his ass. The ass embraced the...

And this man was riding upon his ass.1 The ass2 embraced the type of the Body of Christ, whereon all men resting from their toils are borne as on a chariot. For the Saviour took the burden of our sins. But the Angel who appeared to Balaam was the Word Himself, and He had in His Hand a Sword,3 to wit, the Authority which He held from above.


  1. Ib. 22. 

  2. r Extant in Leipzig Catena, t. i. 1324. 

  3. Ib. 23.