Patristic A.D. 397
“First the dropsical man is cured, in whom the abundant discharges of the flesh crushed down the powers of the soul, quenched the ardour of the Spirit. Next, humility is taught, when at the nuptial feast the desire of the highest place is forbidden. As it is said, And he spake, Sit not down in the highest room.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 14:7-11
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗