Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lxxii. 1) If thou want to know the cause of this familiarity, it is love: Whom Jesus loved. Others were loved, but he was loved more than any.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 13:21-30
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗