Patristic A.D. 604
“(Hom. vii. in Ev. c. 2) John crieth in the wilderness, because it is to forsaken and destitute Judæa that he bears the consolatory tidings of a Redeemer.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:19-23
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗