Patristic A.D. 378
“But as He was departing, the man who had been afflicted will not part from his Saviour, for it follows, Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 8:26-39
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗