Reformed Wisdom

On Isaiah 1:3 -- "The papists, who are accustomed to set aside the true meanings of the Scriptures, and to spoil all the mysteries of God by their own fooleries, have here contrived an absurd fable; for they falsely allege that the oxen and asses in the stall worshipped Christ when he was born; by which they show themselves to be egregious asses.  (And indeed I wish they would imitate the ass which they have invented; for then they would be asses worshipping Christ, and not lifting up the heel against his divine authority.)" -- John Calvin, Commentary on Isaiah, vol 1, 41-42.