Patristic A.D. 407
“He makes them confident not only by calling their ministry a sending forth to the harvest, but by giving them strength for the ministry; whence it follows, He gave them power over all unclean spirits to cast them out, and to heal every sickness and every disease.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 10:1-4
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗