Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. lxvii. 3.) Why then did He say above, that the Father drew men? (c. 6:46.) Because the Father draws, by the Son who draws. I shall draw, He says, as if men were in the grasp of some tyrant, from which they could not extricate themselves.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 12:27-33
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗