Patristic A.D. 604
“Who, had He chosen to exert the power of His Divinity, could, without a word, by His mere nod, have seized them, with the very stones in their hands, and delivered them to immediate death. But He who came to suffer, was slow to execute judgment.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:57-59
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗