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?
Rabanus Maurus
Note, that nine wants only one to make it ten, and ninety and nine the same to be a hundred. Thus members which want one only to be perfect, may be larger or smaller, but yet the unit remaining invariable, when it is added makes the rest perfect. And that the number of sheep might be made up perfect in heaven, lost man was sought on earth.
Source details
A.D. 856 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 18:10-14
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.