Patristic A.D. 430
“(Tr. xlvii. 4) What does He mean then when He says, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel? Only, that whereas He manifested Himself personally to the Jews, He did not go Himself to the Gentiles, but sent others.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 10:14-21
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗