Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xxiii. 3) But why does He give them the sign of His resurrection? Because this was the greatest proof that He was not a mere man; shewing, as it did, that He could triumph over death, and in a moment overthrow its long tyranny.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 2:18-22
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗