Patristic A.D. 735
“(ubi sup.) An example of confessing their sins and of promising to lead a new life, is held out to those who desire to be baptized, by those words which follow, confessing their sins.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 1:4-8
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗