Patristic A.D. 407
“(non occ. leg. ap. Possin. Cyril.) And also because the wisdom spoken amongst the perfect expands, to an extent greater than all other sayings, that which was told to men in short discourses, for there is nothing greater than this truth.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 4:30-34
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗