Patristic A.D. 407
“Though the Lord could have said, Hast thou covenanted to receive silver, and darest to ask Me this? But Jesus, most merciful, said nothing of all this, therein laying down for us rules and landmarks of endurance of evil. He saith unto him, Thou hast said.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:20-25
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗