Patristic A.D. 420
“For what is the difference between water and the Holy Ghost, who was borne over the face of the waters? Water is the ministry of man; but the Spirit is ministered by God.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 1:4-8
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗