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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"I beseech you, be ye imitators of me, as I also am of Christ." Astonishing! How great is our teacher's boldness of speech! How highly finished the image, when he can even exhort others hereunto! Not that in self-exaltation he doth so, but implying that virtue is an easy thing. As if he had said, "Tell me not, 'I am not able to imitate thee. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Be imitators of me in all things, he says; be not puffed up by either wisdom or wealth, and do not be hostile toward the brethren, but place both wisdom and wealth in love for Christ and for the brethren. Notice the goodness of heart: he entreats, and does not command. And to offer oneself as a model for imitation — this is a sign of great boldness.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, I urge you, the, he starts to correct them with his own example. First, he urges them to follow his example, saying: Then, since you are my children and good children should imitate their fathers, I urge you, be imitators of me, so as not to judge rashly (just as I don't, because I do not ever presume to judge myself) but to think humbly of yourselves and highly of others. …
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