Patristic A.D. 407
“And though it were enough for such to receive pardon, yet He rests not His mercy only there, but makes them partakers of many comforts both here and hereafter. God’s mercies are always greater than our troubles.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:4
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗