Patristic A.D. 407
“But not by the law of creation only, but also by the practice of the law, He shews that they ought to be joined one and one, and never put asunder, And he said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 19:1-8
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗