Patristic A.D. 420
“Or otherwise; All His foregoing discourse had invited us to union; now to make us embrace peace more anxiously, He holds out a reward, promising to be in the midst of two or three.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 18:18-20
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗