Patristic A.D. 378
“But straightway he arose to whom the command was made. For the Divine power is irresistible; there is no delay, no urgency of prayer, as it follows, And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother. These are the signs. of a true resurrection, for the lifeless body cannot speak, nor would the mother have carried back to her house her dead and lifeless son.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 7:11-17
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗