Patristic A.D. 395
“Do not then let them lie as though they were nothing worth. Reflect who they are, and thou wilt discover their preciousness. They have put on the image of the Saviour. Heirs of future blessings, bearing the keys of the kingdom, able accusers and excusers, not speaking themselves, but examined by the judge.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 14:12-14
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗