Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. liv. 2) They are aliens from Abraham if they grieve over what he rejoiced in. By this day perhaps He means the day of the cross, which Abraham prefigured by the offering up of Isaac and the ram: intimating hereby that He did not come to His passion unwillingly.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:52-56
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗