Patristic A.D. 390
“(Orat. 2.) The sum of which is, that men ought to be so virtuous that the Gospel should make no less progress through their way of life than their preaching.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 10:3-4
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗