And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a belt of a skin about his waist; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
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Jerome
AD 420
John, too, wears a leather girdle about his loins; and there was nothing soft or effeminate in Elijah, but every bit of him was hard and virile. He, too, certainly was a shaggy man. Homily , On the Exodus.
