Pierius of Alexandria Search This Resource     in this Authorin this Sectionin all Sections   Buy This Resource 10 Volumes HardCover $275.00 10 Volumes Library Binding $299.00  Show me more …   I.-A Fragment of a Work of Pierius on the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians.(1) Origen, Dionysius, Pierius, Eusebius of Caesareia, 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) FOOTNOTES: This very brief quotation is preserved in Jerome's Second Epistle to Pammachius. Latissime. 1 Cor. vii. 7. Vol. iv. p. 243, edit. Benedictin. [No doubt he does, as did his Master, Christ, before him, and under the same limitations. Matt. xix. 12.]