Psalm 31:9
Douay-Rheims
Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto thee.
Augustine of Hippo
To have a soul and not to have an understanding, that is, not to use it or to live according to it, is a beast's life. For there is in us something bestial by which we live in the flesh, but it must be ruled by the understanding. For the understanding rules from above the impulses of the soul when it moves itself according to the flesh and desires to pour itself out immoderately into carnal delights.
Source details
A.D. 430 · on Ps 32:9 (TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 15:19.2)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.