Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III annon virum et mulierem et filium tres dicit, quoniam mulier cum viro per Deum conjungitur? Quod si accinctus quis esse velit et expeditus, non volens procreate liberos, propter eam, quae est in procreandis liberis, molestiam et occupationem, "maneat," inquit Apostolus, absque uxore "ut ego."[112] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV says Homer. "But each has his own proper gift of God "[202] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V than the apostle, prohibits. For the apostle, although preferring the grace of continence,[306] Tertullian To His Wife Book II therefore, who prefers that widows and unmarried women should persevere in their integrity, who exhorts us to a copy[17] Tertullian On Monogamy ," he says, "that you all so be as I too (am)."[14] Pseudo-Cyprian On the Glory of Martyrdom And the same elsewhere says: "I wish that all of you, if it were possible, should be imitators of me."[31] A Fragment of a Work of Pierius on the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians ,[3]