Patristic A.D. 407
“But we have not a hem or a garment only of Christ, but have even His body, that we may eat thereof. If then they who touched the hem of His garment derived so much virtue therefrom, much more they that shall receive Himself whole.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 14:34-36
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗