I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked out the beard: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
AD 386
[This is] as though he were to say, “Though I knew beforehand that they would strike me, I did not even turn aside my cheek; for how could I have nerved my disciples to undergo death for the truth if I had been afraid?”
