Patristic A.D. 420
“But if it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom than for that city, hence we may learn that there is difference of degree in the punishment of sinners.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 10:11-15
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗