Thomas Aquinas

Here he infers the punishment: a ring in your nose, like an ox, a bit between your lips, like a horse, that is, the power of my divinity in curbing you: he has opened his quiver, and has afflicted me, and has put a bridle into my mouth (Job 30:11). There is a bit of human discretion: if any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. …

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