Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xlvii. 1) Or, having given a promise of eternal life to those that eat Him, He says this to confirm it: He that eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, dwelleth in Me, and I in him.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:55-59
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗