Medieval A.D. 804
“It is only by degrees, however, that she comes to the preaching of Christ. First she calls Him a man, not Christ; for fear those who heard her might be angry, and refuse to come.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:27-30
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗