Patristic A.D. 407
“He gives yet another reason weightier than the foregoing, why the little ones are not to be despised, For the Son of Man is come to save that which was lost.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 18:10-14
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗