Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. iii.) Or, he names all the twelve Patriarchs that he may lower that pride which is drawn from a line of noble ancestry. For many of these were born of maidservants, and yet were Patriarchs and heads of tribes.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:2
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗