Patristic A.D. 407
“Otherwise; It might seem that what is here said should be applied generally; but it is by no means intended as a general maxim, but is spoken solely with reference to what had gone before with this meaning; If you are grieved when men revile you, think that in a little time you will be delivered from this evil. They call you indeed impostors, sorcerers, seducers, but have a little patience, and all men shall call you the saviours of the world, when in the course of things you shall be found to have been their benefactors, for men will not judge by their words but by the truth of things.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 10:26-28
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗