Patristic A.D. 407
“This was not to send him away, but rather to convict him of evil intentions; at the same time permitting him if he would to follow Christ with the expectation of poverty.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 8:18-22
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗