Patristic A.D. 407
“And blessed is he who shall not be offended in me, is directed against the messengers; they were offended in Him. But He not publishing their doubts, and leaving it to their conscience alone, thus privately introduced a refutation of them.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 11:1-6
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗