Patristic A.D. 253
“Whence knowest thou, Satan, that those things are written? Hast thou read the Prophets, or the oracles of God? Thou hast read them indeed, but not that thyself mightest be the better for the reading, but that from the mere letter thou mightest slay them who are friends to the letter. (2 Cor. 3:6.) Thou knowest that if thou wert to speak from His other books, thou wouldest not deceive.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:9-13
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗