Patristic A.D. 253
“And we speak thus not only of the present time, but also of the future. When we shall have passed from the world, God will not appear unto all men, nor will the angels, but unto him only who has a clean heart. The place will neither hinder nor serve any one.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:11-14
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗