Patristic A.D. 253
“But we must not wonder that they are called His parents, seeing the one from her childbirth, the other from his knowledge of it, deserved the names of father and mother.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:42-50
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗