Patristic A.D. 407
“(ubi sup.) Further, as a sower does not make a distinction in the ground which is beneath him, but simply and without distinction puts in the seed, so also He Himself addresses all. And to signify this, He says, And as he sowed, some Jell by the way-side.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 4:1-20
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗