Therefore, brethren, be eager to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
In order to console them after all his rebukes, Paul calls them brothers and encourages them to have a desire to prophesy, so that by frequent discussion and exposition of the divine law they may become better equipped to be able to learn that what the false apostles were teaching was perverse. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
For this too is his wont, not only to work out what is before him, but also starting from that to set right whatever seems to him in any way akin to it, and again to return to the former, so as not to appear to wander from the subject. For so when he was discoursing of their concord in their banquets, he digressed to their Communion in the Mysteries, and having thence put them to shame, he returns again to the former, saying, Wherefore, when you come together to eat, wait one for another. 1 Corinthians 11:33
And here, accordingly, having discoursed of good order in their gifts, and of its being a duty neither to faint in the lesser, nor to be puffed up on account of the greater; then having made an excursion from thence to the sobriety becoming women and having established it, he returns again to his subject, saying, Wherefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. Do you see how to the end he preserved the difference of these? And how he sign...
