Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. liii. 1) He says this, that they may not think that He allows them to talk against Him with impunity, from inability to punish them; or that He is not alive to their contemptuous designs.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:25-27
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗