Patristic A.D. 735
“(ubi sup.) For oftentimes when we try to turn to God after sin, our old enemy attacks us with new and greater snares, which he does, either to instil into us a hatred of virtue, or to avenge the injury of his expulsion.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 9:14-29
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗