ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 11 v1

IMITATORS OF PAUL. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: If you imitate Paul as he imitated Christ, then you will be imitating Christ as he represented God. STROMATEIS 2.136.5.

IMITATING OUR TEACHERS. AMBROSIASTER: It is normal that we should imitate those whom God has set over us as teachers. For if they imitate God, why should we not imitate them? For just as God the Father sent Christ as the teacher and author of life, so Christ sent the apostles to be our teachers, so that we should imitate them, for we are unable to imitate him directly. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

GUIDING OTHERS IN THE HUMILITY OF THE INCARNATE LORD. BASIL: If, indeed, the goal of Christianity is the imitation of Christ according to the measure of his incarnation, insofar as is conformable with the vocation of each individual, they who are entrusted with the guidance of many others are obliged to animate those still weaker than themselves, by their assistance, to the imitation of Christ. THE LONG RULES 43.

THE PRECISE LANDMARK. CHRYSOSTOM: This is the rule of the most perfect Christianity, a landmark exactly laid down, the point that stands highest of all. Nothing can make a person like Christ more than caring for one’s neighbors. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 25.3.

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