Patristic
“(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) He then calls Himself a bridegroom, as if about to be betrothed to the Church. For the betrothal is giving an earnest, namely, that of the grace of the Holy Ghost, by which the world believed.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 2:18-22
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗