students in 374. Well-trained in classical rhetoric, he was imbued with Alexandrian theology, but his “countless volumes on the Holy Scriptures” (Jerome On Illustrious Men [De viris illustribus] 104) showed an independence of interpretation. Fragments survive on the Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Hosea, Malachi, Matthew, 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians and Romans. Apollinarius did not perpetuate Origenian allegorism, nor did he formally adhere to the philological method of Antiochene exegetes,
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