Patristic A.D. 407
“But that you may learn how great a good is fasting, and what a mighty shield against the Devil, and that after baptism you ought to give attention to fasting and not to lusts, therefore Christ fasted, not Himself needing it, but teaching us by His example.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:1-2
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗