He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's thong I am not worthy to unloose.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
While he, though speaking more perspicuously as no longer prophesying, but pointing out as now present, Him, who was proclaimed symbolically from the beginning, nevertheless said, "I am not worthy to loose the latchet of the Lord's shoe."