Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lxii. 3) Christ’s words had the effect of stopping Martha’s grief. In her devotion to her Master she had no time to think of her afflictions: And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 11:28-32
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗