Medieval A.D. 908
“This His floor, to wit, the Church, the Lord cleanses in this life, both when by the sentence of the Priests the bad are put out of the Church, and when they are cut off by death.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 3:11-12
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗