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Pierus of
Alexandria.1265
| 1265
[See Introductory Note, p. 143, supra; also p. 99, note 8,
supra.] |
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Translator’s Biographical
Notice.
[a.d. 275.] Among
the very eminent men who flourished near his own time, Eusebius
mentions Pierius, a presbyter of Alexandria, and speaks of him as
greatly renowned for his voluntary poverty, his philosophical erudition
and his skill in the exposition of Scripture and in discoursing to the
public assemblies of the Church.1266
| 1266
Hist. Eccl., vii. 32. | He lived in the latter part of the
third century, and seems to have been for a considerable period
president of the Catechetical school at Alexandria. Jerome says
that he was called Origenes, junior; and according to Photius,
he shared in some of the errors of Origen, on such subjects especially
as the doctrine of the Holy Ghost and the pre-existence of
souls.1267
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Perhaps only speculatively (see Frag. II. infra), not
dogmatically. Compare Wordsworth’s Platonic Ode on
Immortality.] | In his
manner of life he was an ascetic. After the persecution under
Galerius or Maximus he lived at Rome. He appears to have devoted
himself largely to sacred criticism and the study of the text of
Scripture; and among several treatises written by him, and extant in
the time of Photius, we find mention made of one on the prophet
Hosea. And, in addition to the Commentary on the First Epistle
to the Corinthians,1268
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Lardner (part ii. book i. chap. xxiv.) does not think that there
was a commentary written by Pierius on this epistle, but only that the
word of Paul, mentioned below, was expounded at length in some work or
other by Pierius. Fabricius holds the opposite
opinion.—Tr. | Photius notices twelve books of his,
and praises both their composition and their matter.1269
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See Eusebius as above, Jerome in the preface to Hosea,
Photius, cod. 118, 119; Epiphanius, 69, 2;
Lardner, part ii. book i. chap. 24; &c. | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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