Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. 2. de Inc. Dei Nat.) When Zacharias entered into the temple to offer up prayers to God for all men, interceding between God and man, he saw an angel standing within, as it is said, And there appeared unto him an angel.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:11-14
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗