Luke 1:26
Douay-Rheims
And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth,
John Chrysostom
(sup. Mat. Hom. 4.) The angel announces the birth to the virgin not after the conception, lest she should be thereby too much troubled, but before the conception he addresses her, not in a dream, but standing by her in visible shape. For as great indeed were the tidings she receives, she needed before the issue of the event an extraordinary visible manifestation.
Source details
A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:26-27
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.