{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/006/0060068.htm","path":"chr/ecf/006/0060068.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/006/0060068.htm","text":"------------\nOrigen, 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","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VI: I.--A Fragment of a Work of Pierius on the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians.","type":"page"}