Patristic A.D. 735
“(in Marc. i. 7) Since by the envy of the devil death first entered into the world, it was right that the medicine of healing should first work against the author of death; and therefore it is said, And there was in their synagogue a man, &c.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 1:23-28
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗