What is hom-set of small ordinal numbers?

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I'm reading Mac Lane's category theory book. There's an example on page 123 which assumes Ord to be the ordered set of all small ordinal numbers a, b, ... . It would be a category with hom-set Ord(a , b) empty or the one-point set according as a > b or a <= b.

Can you please explain it?