Patristic A.D. 420
“This last is no less than the first. And understand it as if it had been said, Even the poor; that so between noble and mean, rich and poor, there may be no difference in preaching. This approves the strictness of the master, this the truth of the teacher, that in His sight every one who can be saved is equal.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 11:1-6
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗