Glowing Walls & Tarnished Pastors: A Rebuke from AD 394

"Many build churches nowadays;

their walls and pillars of glowing marble,

their ceilings glittering with gold,

their altars studded with jewels.

Yet to the choice of Christ's ministers no heed is paid."

~ Jerome, writing to the young presbyter Nepotian in AD 394

(as quoted in Biblical Eldership)