Patristic A.D. 407
“But he says, The heavens opened, as if till then they had been shut. But now the higher and the lower sheep-fold being brought into one, and there being one Shepherd of the sheep, the heavens opened, and man was incorporated a fellow citizen with the Angels.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 3:21-22
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗