1 Timothy 5:23

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II "Use a little wine," says the apostle to Timothy, who drank water, "for thy stomach's sake; "[55]

Tertullian De Corona

mentions that he ordered Hezekiah medicine when he was sick. Paul, too, knows that a little wine does the stomach good.[25]

Tertullian On Fasting

-we have a sufficient evidence even from the case of his disciple Timotheus; whom when he admonishes, "for the sake of his stomach and constant weaknesses," to use "a little wine,"[76]