Patristic A.D. 604
“(Mor. 3. c. 11. Job 2.) But while the crowd thronged Him, one woman touched our Redeemer, because all carnal men in the Church oppress Him from whom they are afar off, and they alone touch Him who are joined to Him in humility. () The crowd therefore press Him and touch Him not, because it is both importunate in presence, and absent in life.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 8:40-48
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗