Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xlvii. 2) i. e. difficult to receive, too much for their weakness. They thought He spoke above Himself, and more loftily than He had a right to do; and so said they, Who can bear it? which was answering in fact for themselves, that they could not.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:60-71
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗