Patristic A.D. 397
“(in Luc. c. v. 20.) When I have learned contentment in poverty, the next lesson is to govern my heart and temper. For what good is it to me to be without worldly things, unless I have besides a meek spirit? It suitably follows therefore, Blessed are the meek.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:5
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗