Patristic A.D. 430
“(de Cons. Ev. iii. 4.) And that none might think that He limited His Father’s power, He said not, If thou canst do it, but If it may be, or, If it be possible; as much as to say, If thou wilt. For whatever God wills can be done, as Luke expresses more plainly; for he says not, If it be possible, but If thou wilt.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:39-44
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗