Patristic A.D. 367
“The promulgation of the Law deserved also the first preaching of the Gospel; and Israel was to have less excuse for its crime, as it had experienced more care in being warned.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 10:5-8
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗