Patristic A.D. 604
“(Hom. vii. in Ev. c. 3) Made before me, i. e. preferred before me. He comes after me, that is, He is born after me; He is made before me, that is, He is preferred to me.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:24-28
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗