Patristic A.D. 604
“(Hom. 17. in Ev.) He sends the disciples to preach two and two, because there are two commands of charity, the love of God, and love of our neighbour; (and charity cannot exist without at least two;) thereby silently suggesting to us, that he who has not love to another, ought not to undertake the office of preaching.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 10:1-2
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗