Patristic A.D. 430
“(de Civ. Dei, l. xxi. c. 25) That is to say, such an one eateth the body and drinketh the blood of Christ not in the sacramental sense, but in reality.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:55-59
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗