Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xvi. [xv.] 1.) The text then, No man hath seen God at any time, applies not to the Father only, but also to the Son: for He, as Paul saith, is the Image of the invisible God; but He who is the Image of the Invisible, must Himself also be invisible.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:18
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗