Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. in Matt. 59) He says not this of our limbs, but of our intimate friends, whom as being necessary to us we look upon as our limbs; for nothing is so hurtful as mischievous society.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 9:43-50
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗