It is better for a man to be silent and be a Christian than to talk and not be one... Men believe with the heart and confess with the mouth, the one unto righteousness, the other unto salvation. It is good to teach, if the teacher also does what he says.
-Saint Ignatius the God-Bearer, Bishop of Antioch, Epistle to the Ephesians, 15, 2nd Century


For [the demons] said, "Did You come here to torment us before the time?" You see, they could not deny that they had sinned, but they demanded that they not suffer their punishment before the time. Because [Jesus] had caught them in the act of perpetrating those horors so incurable and lawless and deforming and punishing His creature in every way, and because their crimes were so excessive they supposed that [Jesus] would not delay in punishing them, they besought and entreated Him. They who had not even endured bands of iron came bound. And they who ran about the mountains went forth into the plain. And they who hindered all others from passing stood still at the sight of [Jesus] blocking the way.
-St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, 28.2, 4th Century