Patristic A.D. 604
“(Hom. 40. in Ev.) And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys. It follows, And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 16:19-21
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗