Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. ix.) The Evangelist by this history of so bloody a massacre, having filled the reader with horror, now again sooths his feelings, shewing that these things were not done because God could not hinder, or knew not of them; but as the Prophet had foretold.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 2:17-18
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗