Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xiv. in Matt.) Which mercy we find not indeed by our own seeking, but God from on high hath appeared to us, as it follows; Whereby (i. e. by His tender mercy) the dayspring from on high (that is, Christ) hath visited us, taking upon Him our flesh.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:78
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗