Patristic A.D. 407
“What kind of accusation is this, to Call one the son of a murderer, who partakes not in his father’s disposition? Clearly there is no guilt in being so; wherefore this must be said in proof of their resemblance in wickedness.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 23:29-31
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗