I.—A Fragment of a Work of Pierius on the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians.6 This very brief quotation is preserved in Jerome’s Second Epistle to Pammachius.

Origen, Dionysius, Pierius, Eusebius of Cæsareia, Didymus, and Apollinaris, have interpreted this epistle most copiously;7 Latissime. 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,8 1 Cor. vii. 7. added this remark: In saying this, Paul, without disguise, preaches celibacy.9 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.]