Medieval
“(ordin.) He does not then take away the liberty of asking, but is the more anxious to kindle the desire of praying, by shewing the difficulty of obtaining that we ask for. For it follows, The door is now shut.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 11:5-8
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗