Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xlvii. 2) i. e. are spiritual, have nothing carnal in them, produce no effects of the natural sort; not being under the dominion of that law of necessity, and order of nature established on earth.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:60-71
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗