For our more respectable parts have no need: but God has arranged the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked:
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
We do not have to add anything to those whose eagerness for expertise and respectability is obvious—the honor due to them is given already. But an exhortation is necessary regarding the despised and lowly, to ensure that due honor is given to them, so that they may be seen as useful. Otherwise, if these people are despised, they will become more negligent about themselves. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
