Whoever loves me keeps my commandments, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him. And what will he give him? And I will show myself to him. (Jn 14:21). Thats what will be seen, when he does what he said: And I will show myself to him. There you will see Gods justice; there, without a book, you will read it in the Word. When you will see him as he is, our wandering will be over, and we will rejoice with the joy of the angels. And what is the way there? It is faith. For the sake of your faith, Christ became ugly, though Christ remains beautiful. The one more beautiful than the children of men will be seen after our wandering.But how is he seen now by faith? And we have seen him, and he had no beauty or comeliness; his face was abject, and his position ugly (that is, his power), despised and ugly was his position, a man placed in a plague, and knowing how to bear infirmities (Is 53:2-3). Christs ugliness makes you beautiful. [Deformitas Christi te format]. For if he had not been willing to be ugly, you would not have received the beauty which you had lost. He hung ugly on the cross, but his ugliness was our beauty. [deformitas illius pulchritudo nostra erat]In this life, then, let us told on to the ugly Christ. What does "ugly Christ" mean? Far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ through whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world (Gal 6:14). This is Christs ugliness.... This is the way, to believe in the one crucified. We bear the sign of this ugliness on our foreheads; let us not be ashamed at Christs ugliness. (Augustine, Sermon 27, 5-6; PL 38, 181)