And Jesus said unto him,
Why call me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
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Ephrem The Syrian
AD 373
The rich man called Jesus “good,” as if he were offering him a favor, just as some favor others with honorary titles. [The Lord] fled from that by which people favored him, so that he might show that he had received this goodness from the Father through nature and generation, and not [merely] in name. “Only one is good,” [he said], and did not remain silent, but added, “the Father,” so that he might show that the Son is good in just the way that the Father is good. Commentary on Tatian’s Diatessaron.
