Medieval A.D. 856
“Whence Matthew, who wrote his Gospel to the Jews, is the only one who mentions that the ass was brought to the Lord, to shew that this same Hebrew nation, if it repent, need not despair of salvation,”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 21:1-9
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗