Patristic A.D. 420
“Also they shake off the dust as a testimony of the Apostles’ toil, that in preaching the Gospel they had come even so far, or as a token that from those that rejected the Gospel they would accept nothing, not even the necessaries of life.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 10:11-15
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗