Patristic A.D. 444
“The last state also is worse than the first, according to the words of the Apostle, It were better not to have known the way of truth, than after they have known it to turn back from it. (2 Pet. 2:21.)”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 11:24-26
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗