Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Pierus of Alexandria/A Fragment of a Work of Pierius on the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
I.—A Fragment of a Work of Pierius on the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians.[1]
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Origen, Dionysius, Pierius, Eusebius of Cæsareia, Didymus, and Apollinaris, have interpreted this epistle most copiously;[2] of whom Pierius, when he was expounding and unfolding the meaning of the apostle, and purposed to explain the words, For I would that all men were even as I myself,[3] added this remark: In saying this, Paul, without disguise, preaches celibacy.[4]