Patristic A.D. 444
“But what the meaning of the parable is, let us hear from him who made it, as it follows, And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 8:4-15
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗