Jerome, on 1Tim 5:23

“Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake, and thy frequent infirmities.”

“Notice the reasons why wine is allowed: it is to cure pain in the stomach and to relieve a frequent infirmity and hardly then. And lest perchance we should indulge ourselves on the ground of illness, Paul recommends that but a little wine should be taken, advising rather as a physician than as an apostle—although indeed an apostle is a spiritual physician.”

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