Patristic A.D. 407
“Truly He has loosed her barrenness, a supernatural gift He has bestowed upon her, and the unfruitful rock has produced the green blade. He has taken away her disgrace, in that He has made her to bring forth. Hence it follows: In the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:23-25
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗