Augustine
Tractate 8, 9: “He commends His mother to the care of the
disciple; commends His mother, as about to die before her, and to rise again
before her death. The man commends her a human being to man’s care.”
Tractate 120, 3: “Ought we not the rather so to take the
words, ‘From that hour the disciple took her unto his own,’ that everything
necessary for her was entrusted to his care? He received her, therefore, . . .
to his own dutiful services, the discharge of which, by a special dispensation,
was entrusted to herself.”
Chrysostom
Homily 85, 3: “When He Himself was now departing, He
committed her to the disciple to take care of. For since it was likely that,
being His mother, she would grieve, and require protection, He with reason
entrusted her to the beloved.”