Patristic A.D. 430
“(de Pecc. mer. et Remiss. l. i. c. 33) He calls the works of him who comes to the light, wrought in God; meaning that his justification is attributable not to his own merits, but to God’s grace.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 3:19-21
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗