Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xxxix. 2) Or, He did not say, He that heareth My words, and believeth on Me; as they would have thought this empty boasting and arrogance. To say, Believeth on Him that sent Me, was a better way of making His discourse acceptable. To this end He says two things: one, that he who hears Him, believes on the Father; the other, that he who hears and believes shall not come into condemnation.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 5:24
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗