Patristic A.D. 735
“(ubi sup.) But when the hand of the Saviour, that is, the Incarnate Word of God, is stretched out, and touches human nature, it is cleansed from the various parts of the old error.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 1:40-45
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗