Patristic A.D. 735
“(ubi sup.) And as the worm is the pain which inwardly accuses, so the fire is a punishment which rages without us; or by the worm is meant the rottenness of hell, by the fire, its heat.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 9:43-50
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗