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Crescentinus
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Is it a good idea to still call him as the Dumb Ox?
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Theophorus
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You call him the dumb ox, but one day he will emit such a bellowing in his teaching that it will be heard throughout the world
St. albert the great on St. Thomas
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Pfaffenhoffen
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That’s what he was called.
I feel the “dumb” a little too much. An ox, yes, but a horse too, for the speed of his reasoning and elephant for his prodigious memory.
Some books, jokingly, put that in the title.
But you need to understand the joke.
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Fiasco
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We Catholics know what a great intellect Saint Thomas had, so it`s really a term of endearment.
Saint Francis of Assisi called himself (or his body) “Brother Donkey”!
Saint Francis of Assisi called himself (or his body) “Brother Donkey”!
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littlestsouls
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It was NEVER a good idea to call him a “dumb ox!”
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