Patristic A.D. 395
“(ubi sup.) Or, He orders the valleys to be filled, the mountains and hills to be cast down, to shew that the rule of virtue neither fails from want of good, nor transgresses from excess.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 3:3-6
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗