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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
The Lord sits upon the colt for two purposes at one and the same time: first, to fulfill the prophecy which says, "Behold, your King comes," sitting upon a beast of burden (Zech. 9:9); and second, to figuratively let us know that He would subdue to Himself a new, unclean, and untamed people of the Gentiles. Judging by the distance of the journey, the Lord doubtless had no need of a beast of burden. …
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
The apostles threw down their own garments before Christ. By their preaching of the gospel, they would present the glory of their action. In Holy Scripture, very often garments are virtues, which are to soften the hardness of the Gentiles to some extent by their own virtue, so that with zealous good will they may show the undisturbed obedience of a joyful passage. The Lord of the world was not happy to be carried in a public spectacle on the back of a donkey. …
Bede
And throwing their garments on the colt, they set Jesus upon it. The garments of the apostles, or the doctrine of virtues, or the exposition of Scriptures, or certainly the various dogmas of the ecclesiastical understanding, with which they cover human hearts, formerly bare and cold, so that they may become worthy for Christ as rider.
Bonaventure
Third, as regards the obedience of the disciples returning according to the command, it is added: And they brought him to Jesus, that they might fulfill the command of Christ, to whom he had said above: "Loose him and bring him to me." And casting their garments upon the colt, they set Jesus thereon, that they might show that Christ was the promised king. …
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