Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xxxviii. 3) Those however who are not well-disposed to this doctrine, do not admit that Christ made Himself equal to the Father, but only that the Jews thought He did. But let us consider what has gone before. That the Jews persecuted Christ, and that He broke the sabbath, and said that God was His Father, is unquestionably true. That which immediately follows then from these premises, viz. His making Himself equal with God, is true also.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 5:14-18
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗