Matthew 18:12 Douay-Rheims

What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to seek that which is gone astray?

Hilary of Poitiers

c. A.D. 310–367 Patristic

But by the one sheep is to be understood one man, and under this one man is comprehended the whole human race. He that seeks man is Christ, and the ninety and nine are the host of the heavenly glory which He left.

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A.D. 367 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 18:10-14

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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