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   "Now what He said is like this: “Woman hath not borne a greater than this   
   man.” And His very sentence is indeed sufficient; but if thou art minded to   
   learn from facts also, consider his table, his manner of life, the height   
   of his soul. For he so lived as though he were in heaven: and having got   
   above the necessities of nature, he travelled as it were a new way,   
   spending all his time in hymns and prayers, and holding intercourse with   
   none among men, but with God alone continually. For he did not so much as   
   see any of his fellow-servants, neither was he seen by any one of them; he   
   fed not on milk, he enjoyed not the comfort of bed, or roof, or market, or   
   any other of the things of men; and yet he was at once mild and earnest.   
   Hear, for example, how considerately he reasons with his own disciples,   
   courageously with the people of the Jews, how openly with the king. For   
   this cause He said also, “There hath not risen among them that are born of   
   women a greater than John the Bapti   
   st.”" St. John Chrysostom, on St. John, the Baptist.   
      
   "Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one   
   greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven   
   is greater than he."  Matthew 11:11   
      
   Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)