Tertullian, Against Marcion 32
Who looks for the lost sheep and the lost coin? Is it not the one who lost them? Who lost them? Is it not the one who had them? Who, indeed, had them? Is it not the one to whom they belonged? If, therefore, the man is not anyone else's property except the Creator's, then the one to whom they belonged had them, the one who had them lost them, the one who lost them looked for them, the one who looked for them found them, the one who found them rejoiced. So the argument of both parables is empty concerning the one whose are neither the sheep nor the coin, that is, the man. For he did not lose, because he did not have, nor did he look, because he did not lose, nor did he find, because he did not look, nor did he rejoice, because he did not find. And therefore it is his to rejoice over the sinner's repentance—that is, over the recovery of the lost one—who once declared that he preferred the sinner's repentance to death.
Latin
Ouem et drachmam perditam quis requirit? nonne qui perdidit? quis autem perdidit? nonne qui habuit? quis uero habuit? nonne cuius fuit? si igitur homo non alterius est res quam creatoris, is eum habuit, cuius fuit, is perdidit, qui habuit, is requisiuit, qui perdidit, is inuenit, qui quaesiuit, is exultauit, qui inuenit. ita utriusque parabolae argumentum uacat circa eum, cuius non est ouis neque drachma, id est homo. non enim perdidit, quia non habuit, nec requisiuit, quia non perdidit, nec inuenit, quia nec requisiuit, nec exultauit, quia non inuenit. atque adeo exultare illius est de paenitentia peccatoris, id est de perditi recuperatione, qui se professus est olim malle peccatoris paenitentiam quam mortem.