Patristic A.D. 604
“(Hom. in Ev. iv. 4.) For He knew before that there would be some that would turn the gift of the Spirit which they had received into merchandize, and pervert the power of miracles into an instrument of their covetousness.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 10:5-8
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗