Patristic A.D. 407
“The Devil is wont to be most urgent with temptation, when he sees us solitary; thus it was in the beginning he tempted the woman when he found her without the man, and now too the occasion is offered to the Devil, by the Saviour’s being led into the desert.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:1-2
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗