Lord directed them to procure a colt which had never been ridden. Swete says: “The foal was unbroken, had never been ridden, as befitted an animal consecrated to a sacred purpose. The Lord was born of one who ‘did not know a man,’ and was buried where ‘no one was ever yet laid.’ His choice of an animal not ridden by anyone before Him, is another of those claims to uniqueness which contrast forcibly with His usual condescension to the circumstances of an ordinary human life.” Translation. And says