For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
Ox that treadeth out the corn (Deuteronomy 25:4). In the East they do not, after reaping, carry the sheaves home to barns as we do, but take them to an area in the open air to be threshed by oxen treading them, or else drawing a threshing instrument over them (cf. Micah 4:13).
Doth God ... care for oxen? х mee (G3361).] 'Is it for the oxen that God careth? Surely not. God does care for the lower animal (Psalms 36:6; Matthew 10:29), but it is with the ultimate aim of the welfare of man, the head of creation. If humane consideration is shown for the lower animal, still more ought it to be for man; the human (spiritual as well as temporal) labourer is worthy of his hire.