15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.



Ver. 15. Sitting upon an ass] Not upon a stately palfrey, as an earthly potentate; but upon a silly ass, without pomp, to comfort the poorest, and to teach us humility, tolerance, patience. An ass is a beast profitable (whence he hath his name in the original), but born to bear burdens. {a} Oneramus asinum, saith Bernard, et non curat, quia asinus est. But what notorious asses are those superstitious Papists, that show the ass’s tail in Genoa in Italy, whereon our Saviour rode, for a relic, and give it divine worship. Are not these given up to the very efficacy of error?



{a} ïíïò, ðáñá ôï ïíçááèáé . Hinc Heradidae Sophistae, ðóõïõ åãêùçñïí, ïíïõ dixit åãêùìéïí .