I showed up at St. Jerome's a little early Sunday and they had a librarian's cart of paperbacks in the vestibule. I looked at Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (Penguin Classics).

We saw him and he had neither comeliness nor beauty; his appearance was mean and inferior to that of other men. He was familiar with hard labor and the lash...,

p.20, was comforting and a new insight.