No Small Thing

"At first glance there seems to be no real truth in this teaching that proclaims a dead Christ and the scandal of the cross... But this preaching, which seems so small in the beginning, when it has been sown either in the believing soul or in the whole world, does not blossom into a potted plant but grows up into a tree so that the birds of the heavens...come and dwell in its branches."

--Jerome, 5th Century