Philoxenus of Mabbug, on Hos 4:16

“For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer: now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.”

“In another place, the prophet heapeth contumely upon Israel who had slipped his shoulder from [under] the yoke of the divine commandments: "As an ox which hath escaped from the yoke, so have the children of Israel escaped, they and their kings and their nobles." Now Israel became rebels because there was no fear [in them]; and they trod under foot the commandments because they were not mindful of what was threatened; and they despised the law because they remembered not the penalty of Him that ordained it.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.