both when his behavior is more bestial than human (“I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward thee”6) and when the behavior of animals is more human than that of some human beings. For sometimes animals actually outshine humans. Ants are more industrious and more prudent than the human sluggard. Oxen and donkeys tend to give their masters a more obedient recognition than God’s people. And migratory birds are better at repentance, for when they go away on migration they always return, whereas