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The Russian Orthodox scholar, priest, and martyr [[Pavel Florensky|Pavel Florensky]] offered a famous description of adelphopoiesis in his 1914 book ''The Pillar and the Ground of The Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters'', which included an early bibliography on the topic.<ref>Florensky, ''The Pillar and Ground of the Truth'', pp. 571-72.</ref> Florensky described traditional Christian chaste friendship, expressed in adelphopoiesis, as "a community molecule [rather than an atomistic individualism], a pair of friends, which is the principle of actions here, just as the family was this kind of molecule for the pagan community," reflecting Christ's words that "wherever two or more of you are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of thee."<ref>Florensky, ''The Pillar and the Ground of the Truth'', p. 301.</ref> Florensky in his theological exegesis of the rite described an overlap of Christian agapic and philic love in adelphopoiesis, but not eros, noting that its ceremonies consisted of prayer, scriptural reading, and ritual that involved partaking in presanctified eucharistic gifts <ref>Florensky, ''The Pillar and Ground of the Truth', p. 327.</ref>