Ambrosiaster, on 1Cor 11:1

“Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.”

“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.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.