Patristic A.D. 253
“But love is dangerous when it is uncontrolled. For he who loves any one ought to consider the nature and causes of loving, and not to love more than the object deserves. For if he pass the due measure and bounds of love, both he who loves, and he who is loved, will be in sin.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 3:15-17
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗