Patristic A.D. 604
“(ubi sup.) It is plain to every reader that John not only preached the baptism of repentance, but to some also he gave it, yet his own baptism he could not give for the remission of sins.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 3:3-6
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗