Patristic A.D. 420
“Or, That treasure in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge (Col. 2:3.), is either God the Word, who seems hid in Christ’s flesh, or the Holy Scriptures, in which are laid up the knowledge of the Saviour.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 13:44
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗