1 Timothy 5:23 (WEB)
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
Fathers and councils · 16
Jerome
“And headvises his disciple Timothy, who had a weak stomach, and was subject to many infirmities, to drink wine in moderation: “Drink no longer water,” he says.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
Read the whole comment“Paul, it is true, says to Timothy “drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake, and for thine often infirmities.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
Read the whole comment“This, if your stomach is strong enough to bear it; but if your digestion is weak, hear what the apostle says to Timothy: “use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
Read the whole comment“But as, before children come to a robust age, abstinence is dangerous and trying to their tender frames, let her have baths if she require them, and let her take a little wine for her stomach’s sake.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
Read the whole comment“She abstained from eating flesh, and she knew rather the scent of wine than its taste; touching it only for her stomach’s sake and for her often infirmities.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…and because of the weakness of their bodies partake of food: nor yet blame these who use a little wine for their stomach’s sake and their often infirmities: and neither condemn the men as sinners, nor abhor the flesh as strange food; for the Apostle knows some of this sort, when he says: forbidding to marry, and…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And so with regard to each that precept is useful wherein Timothy is warned: “Drink a little wine because of thy frequent infirmities.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
Read the whole comment“But because all are not strong the Apostle said: “Use a little wine because of thy frequent infirmities.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“You can drink no wine, like Timothy, and fast constantly too, like Paul, in order that thus fasting after his example you may feast others with your words, and while thirsting for lack of drink, water others by teaching.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
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John Chrysostom
“Hear what Paul saith, “Use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake, and thine often infirmities.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
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Augustine of Hippo
“In the case of Timothy also, whom he calls his own most true son, because he knew him weak of body, (as he shows, in advising him not to drink water, but to use a little wine for his stomach’s sake and his often…” — editor's note: “Germanissimum.” 1 Tim. v. 23
Read the whole comment“Timothy also certainly had the virtue of abstaining from wine, which Paul took not from him, by advising him to use a moderate portion of wine, “for the sake of his stomach and his often infirmities,” otherwise he taught…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23
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Tertullian
“…evidence even from the case of his disciple Timotheus; whom when he admonishes, “for the sake of his stomach and constant weaknesses,” to use “a little wine,” from which he was abstaining not from rule, but from devotion—else the custom would rather have been beneficial to his stomach—by this very fact he has advised…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
Read the whole comment“Paul, too, knows that a little wine does the stomach good.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
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Gregory the Great
“Let these hear, Use a little wine far thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities (1 Tim. v. 23).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
““Use a little wine,” says the apostle to Timothy, who drank water, “for thy stomach’s sake;” most properly applying its aid as a strengthening tonic suitable to a sickly body enfeebled with watery humours; and specifying “a little,” lest the remedy…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 23.
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Cross-references · 24
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Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.14.
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Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.14.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.14.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.14.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.14.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 8.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.14.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.14.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.14.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 8.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 8.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 8.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.14.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.14 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 16.