Patristic A.D. 407
“Because it should come to pass that His disciples among their other persecutions should suffer loss of character, which to many is the most grievous of all calamities, He consoles them from His own example, and those things that were spoken of Him; a comfort to which no other can be compared.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 10:24-25
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗