Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lxvii) So then death will be followed by resurrection. Where I am, He says; for Christ was in heaven before His resurrection. Thither let us ascend in heart and in mind. If any man serve Me, him will My Father honour. This must be understood as an explanation of the preceding. There also shall My servant be. For what greater honour can an adopted son receive than to be where the Only Son is?”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 12:20-26
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗