Patristic A.D. 339
“He speaks these things to His disciples, not as to those who would continue in this life to the end of the world, but as if uniting in one body of believers in Christ both themselves and us and our posterity, even to the end of the world.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 21:28-33
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗