Given that the "birth stories of Jesus were belatedly added to the Gospels, to facilitate the conversions to Christianity among the Gentiles, or between the pagan peoples of the Roman Empire, in the canonical Gospels only in Matthew and Luke we find this kind of stories. While in Matthew speaks of "esoteric omens" (the Magi, the Star) and "Jesus baby" is placed in a simple "house" (not in a stable, let alone in a cave), but the setting is in LUCA much more dramatic: the manger, the shepherds, angels, etc.. We notice another difference: the story of Matthew is full of quotations (although forced) from the Old Testament, while Luke does not mention no prophet. This is because Matt is dedicated to readers mainly Jews, while Luke is tailor-made for an audience of so-called pagans. This explains the theme of the stable and the manger, as the pagan myths are often associated with breeding. That the stable has been cited by Luke a donkey and an ox, but a legend is much later and is reported in the Gospel "apocryphal" said "Pseudo-Matthew." The apocryphal Pseudo-Matthew is very late, the dating is uncertain, but certainly prior to the ninth century. So when you wrote this apocryphal, Christianity is now fully paganized, Romanization, and deeply anti-Semitic. That's why Pseudo-Matthew, when cloning Luke places the birth in a stable, but adds an ox and an ass quips on the "unbelief" of Jews who refused to "recognize" Jesus The irony is given by an implicit reference the prophet Isaiah, who wrote: The ox knows its owner, - and the ass his master's crib - but Israel has no knowledge - my people have no discernment. Isaiah 1:3
So, the ox and the ass of the Nativity, above and beyond their innocent looks indifferent, are the symbol of the Christian prejudice against the Jewish people, wrongly considered to be "without discrimination" for failing to "recognize" the supposed "god" of Rabbi Jesus (source: www.cristianesimo.it)
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