Patristic A.D. 444
“This refers to the Israelites, who, according to the practice of their law, when offering victims to God, eat and are merry. They heard also in the synagogues the books of Moses, who in his writings delivered not his own words, but the words of God.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 13:22-30
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗