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Day 262: The Ox Knows His Owner

2 Machabees 15 · Isaias 1 · Proverbs 3 and Psalm 112 (113 modern) · Douay-Rheims

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Isaias 1:1–2:22 — The Ox Knows His Owner

An ox knows whose barn he walks into. A donkey knows which trough is his. That is not intelligence. It is the lowest grade of recognition there is.

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