Patristic A.D. 430
“(de Quæst. Nov. et Vet. Test. 2. 78) In going there too, He went up, not to the feast day, but to the light. They had gone to enjoy the pleasures of the festival, but Christ’s feast day was that on which by His Passion He redeemed the world.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 7:14-18
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗