Patristic A.D. 430
“(Tract. xxxi. s. 5) That is, because He was not so pleased; for our Lord was not born subject to fate. Thou must not believe this even of thyself, much less of Him by Whom thou wert made. And if thine hour is in His will, is not His hour in His own will? His home then here does not mean the time that He was obliged to die, but the time that He deigned to be put to death.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 7:25-30
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗