Patristic A.D. 430
“(Tr. xlv. 14) And who is He who leads them out, but the Same who loosens the chain of their sins, that they may follow Him with free unfettered step?”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 10:1-5
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗