Patristic A.D. 604
“(in Hom. 34.) And we must observe that He says not, “Rejoice with the sheep that is found,” but with me, because truly our life is His joy, and when we are brought home to heaven we fill up the festivity of His joy.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 15:1-7
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗