Patristic A.D. 386
“But these words may be more appropriately taken to refer to the hostile ranks of the evil spirits. For they were raging on the earth, when our Lord’s coming put them to flight, and restored those whom they had bound, to His obedience.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:51
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗