Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lx) The word must here (I must bring) does not signify necessity, but only that the thing would take place. Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again. They had called Him an alien from His Father.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 10:14-21
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗