Patristic A.D. 378
“Or else, He says, the kingdom of God is at hand, meaning that when these things shall be, not yet shall all things come to their last end, but they shall be already tending towards it. For the very coming of our Lord itself, casting out every principality and power, is the preparation for the kingdom of God.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 21:28-33
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗