Patristic A.D. 407
“(in Mat. Hom. xiii) But the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness, because He designed to provoke the devil to tempt Him, and thus gave Him an opportunity not only by hunger, but also by the place. For then most of all does the devil thrust himself in, when he sees men remaining solitary.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 1:12-13
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗