Patristic A.D. 430
“(Quæst. Ev. i. 46.) And also that the Church should follow, i. e. imitate, the Lord’s Passion, but with great difference. For the Church suffers for itself, but Christ for the Church.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:55-58
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗