Patristic A.D. 420
“They had offered gifts to the Lord, and receive a warning corresponding to it. This warning (in the Greek ‘having received a response’) is given not by an Angel, but by the Lord Himself, to shew the high privilege granted to the merit of Joseph.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 2:12
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗