Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lxxxviii.) This darkness lasted three hours, whereas an eclipse is transient, and not enduring, as they know who have studied the matter.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 27:45-50
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗