Patristic A.D. 430
“(Tr. xxvi. s. 10.) Our Lord wishes to reveal what He is; Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, hath everlasting life. As if He said; He that believeth on Me hath Me: but what is it to have Me? It is to have eternal life: for the Word which was in the beginning with God is life eternal, and the life was the light of men. Life underwent death, that life might kill death.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:47-51
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗