Patristic
“Or else the voice and the cry is in the desert, because they were deserted by the Spirit of God, as a house empty, and swept out; deserted also by prophet, priest, and king.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 1:2-3
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗