Saints & Scripture
Stable Ox T-shirt
The Stable Ox T-shirt is a Honeyman Tees print-on-demand tee from the Saints & Scripture collection. The design shows a brown and white ox with short horns standing beside a wooden manger full of hay, with a speech bubble above it, saying “Hosted the first Christmas. No thank-you note.” Available on Etsy.
“Hosted the first Christmas. No thank-you note.”
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About this design
A friendly ox beside a wooden manger full of hay.
The story behind it
The Gospel of Luke mentions a manger, but neither Luke nor Matthew mentions an ox or a donkey. The animals come from later Christian tradition: early writers connected the scene to a line in the Book of Isaiah about an ox that knows its owner and a donkey that knows its master's manger, and a Roman stone carving from about 330 to 350, one of the earliest surviving nativity scenes, already shows an ox and a donkey beside the manger. Artists have painted them there ever since.
Proposed colors: Natural
Mockups show the print at true scale on a size M tee. Colors are proposed, not final.
Where to buy
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