Augustine (d. 430 AD)
On why John 7:53-8:11 was missing from some manuscripts:
“Certain persons of little faith, or rather enemies of the true faith, fearing, I suppose, lest their wives should be given impunity in sinning, removed from their manuscripts the Lord’s act of forgiveness toward the adulteress, as if he who had said, Sin no more, had granted permission to sin.”
Source: Augustine, De Adulterinis Conjugiis, 2:6–7
