Patristic A.D. 397
“(de Sacr. vi. 1.)d; And that we might not be shocked by the sight of blood, while it at the same time wrought the price of our redemption.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:26
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗