Patristic A.D. 430
“(lib. lxxxiii. Quæst. qu. 61) Our Lord by breaking, as it were, what was hard in the Law, and opening what was shut, that time when He opened the Scriptures to the disciples after the resurrection, brought the Law out in its full meaning.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:1-14
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗