Patristic A.D. 407
“(ubi sup.) But this the Lord permitted for the sake of the father of the boy, that when he saw the devil vexing his child, he might be brought on to believe that the miracle was to be wrought.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 9:14-29
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗