Patristic A.D. 430
“(Tr. xlvii. 7) i. e. Because I die, to rise again. There is great force in, I lay down. Let not the Jews, He says, boast; rage they may, but if I should not choose to lay down My life, what will they do by raging?”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 10:14-21
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗