Patristic A.D. 407
“The Lord had refuted the Pharisees by explaining His own actions, and He now proceeds to terrify them. For this is no small part of correction, to threaten punishment, as well as to set right false accusation.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 12:31-32
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗