Patristic A.D. 735
“(ubi sup.) For sometimes a clever reader by neglecting his mind, deprives himself of wisdom, of which he tastes the sweetness, who, though slow in intellect, works more diligently.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 4:21-25
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗