Patristic A.D. 735
“(ubi sup.) The man who taking a far journey left his house is Christ, who ascending as a conqueror to His Father after the resurrection, left His Church, as to His bodily presence, but has never deprived her of the safeguard of His Divine presence.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 13:32-37
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗