Patristic A.D. 735
“But he says, Which have been since the world began. Because all the Scriptures of the Old Testament were a constant prophecy of Christ. For both our father Adam himself, and the other fathers, by their deeds bore testimony to His dispensation.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:70
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗