Patristic A.D. 444
“(Chrys. in Thes. lib. ii. c. 4.) By the following words, And he shall thoroughly purge his floor, the Baptist signifies that the Church belongs to Christ as her Lord.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 3:15-17
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗