Patristic A.D. 444
“But this way of life was well adapted to the holy teachers who were about to preach throughout the earth the word of salvation, and if it had been their will to take vengeance upon their persecutors, had failed to call them to the knowledge of salvation.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 6:27-31
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗