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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
By the name 'horse' is understood temporal dignity, as Solomon witnesses, who says, "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." For every one who sins is the servant of sin, and servants are upon horses, when sinners are elated with the dignities of the present life. But princes walk as servants, when no honour exalts many who are full of the dignity of virtues, but when the greatest misfortune here presses them down, as though unworthy. …
Bonaventure
With regard to the defect of life he says: I have seen servants upon horses: servants, he calls sinners, of whom in John 8: "He who commits sin is the servant of sin"; upon horses, he says in the plural to express pomp: Deuteronomy 17: "When he shall have been established, he shall not multiply horses for himself." On the contrary: Princes walking as servants, namely those princes who rule themselves through a good life: Seneca: "If you shall have ruled yourself well, you will be a prince": these he saw as servants, but in the future …
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