Patristic A.D. 735
“He who clothes the whole world with its varied beauty, is wrapped up in common linen, that we might be able to receive the best robe; He by Whom all things are made, is folded both hands and feet, that our hands might be raised up for every good work, and our feet directed in the way of peace.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:6-7
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗