Patristic A.D. 604
“(ubi sup.) The Holy Church daily doth spiritually, what it then did materially by the Apostles; yea, things far greater, inasmuch as she raises and cures souls and not bodies.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 10:5-8
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗