Patristic A.D. 735
“But by seed he means not so much those who are begotten in the flesh, as those who have followed the steps of Abraham’s faith, to whom the Saviour’s coming was promised for evermore.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:54-55
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗