the oxe] By this, if a beast must be punished, (and it is a law touching other beasts, as well as for an oxe) much more should the murderer: since, though the law of the beast is not given to the beasts, but to man; for to man it is said, Thou shalt not kill: and if he doe, it must be done unto himselfe, and he did to another, Genesis 9:6. yet the oxe was to die, for admonition to man, to have murder in the more detestation; and to make every one to looke better to their beasts, that they become not the causes of death unto man.