Patristic A.D. 397
“Now many derive different meanings from the name vineyard, but Esaias clearly relates the vineyard of the Lord of Sabaoth to be the house of Israel. (Isa. 5.) This vineyard who else but God planted?”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 20:9-18
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗