Tertullian

“ Accordingly, He who said, “Woe unto them that trust in the mountain of Samaria,” [32] vouchsafing now to restore that very region, purposely requests the men “to go and show themselves to the priests,” because these were to be found only there where the temple was; submitting [33] the Samaritan to the Jew, inasmuch as “salvation was of the Jews,” [34] whether to the Israelite or the Samaritan. To the tribe of Judah, indeed, wholly appertained the promised Christ, [35] in order that men might know that at Jerusalem were both the priests and the temple ”

“ But the believer knows that there is a profounder reason. Consider, therefore, the true motives. [25] The miracle was performed in the district of Samaria, to which country also belonged one of the lepers. ”

“ If He really does punish, like the Creator, [55] if He is my Judge, He ought not to have adduced examples for the purpose of instructing me from Him whom He yet destroys, that He [56] might not seem to be my instructor. But if He does not even here speak of His own coming, but of the coming of the Hebrew Christ, [57] let us still wait in expectation that He will vouchsafe to us some prophecy of His own advent; meanwhile we will continue to believe that He is none other than He whom He reminds us of in every passage.
Footnotes ↑ Luke xvii. 1, 2.↑ Zech. ii. 8.↑ Luke xvii. ”

“ The Cure of the Ten Lepers. Old Testament Analogies. The Kingdom of God Within You; This Teaching Similar to that of Moses. Christ, the Stone Rejected by the Builders. Indications of Severity in the Coming of Christ. Proofs that He is Not the Impassible Being Marcion Imagined. ”