Patristic A.D. 407
“is to be noted, that were not man fortified here by Providence, he would long since have perished; for the dæmons who cast him into the fire, and into the water, would have killed him outright, had God not restrained him.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 17:14-18
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗