Patristic A.D. 450
“(l. i. ep. 438.) Denoting the simplicity and innocence in His disciples. For those who were riotous, and by their enormities did despite to their nature, He calls not lambs, but goats.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 10:3-4
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗