Patristic
“Or, the way of the Lord, by which He comes into men, is penitence, by which God comes down to us, and we mount up to Him. And for this reason the beginning of John’s preaching was, Repent ye.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 1:2-3
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗