Patristic A.D. 407
“(non occ.) The disciples of John, therefore, and of the Pharisees, being jealous of Christ, ask Him, whether He alone of all men with His disciples could, without abstinence and toil, conquer in the fight of the passions.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 2:18-22
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗