Patristic A.D. 339
“Or else, To those that have passed through the body and bodily things, shall be present spiritual and heavenly bodies: that is, they will have no more to pass the kingdom of the world, and then to those that are worthy shall be given the promises of salvation. For having received the promises of God which we look for, we who before were crooked shall be made upright, and we shall lift up our heads who were before bent low; because the redemption which we hoped for is at hand; that namely for which the whole creation waiteth.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 21:28-33
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗