Patristic A.D. 735
“Or we must say, that He elected the eleven for one purpose, the twelfth for another: the eleven to fill the place of Apostles, and persevere in it unto the end; the twelfth to the service of betraying Him, which was the means of saving the human race.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:60-71
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗