Patristic A.D. 735
“(ubi sup.) Again, the man who sows is by many taken to mean the Saviour Himself, by others, man himself sowing in his own heart.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 4:30-34
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗