Patristic A.D. 430
“(Tr. liii. 5) But the Prophet, you say, mentions another cause, not their will; viz. that God had blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart. But I answer, that they well deserved this. For God hardens and blinds a man, by forsaking and not supporting him; and this He may by a secret sentence, by an unjust one He cannot.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 12:37-43
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗