allegorical, moral, and analogical.32 Later in life Augustine reverted to a more historical and doctrinal view of interpretation, except for prophecy,33 possibly because he was influenced by the Antiochan school of interpretation and its two hermeneutical giants, Theodore of Mopsuestia (ca. 350–428) and John Chrysostom (354–407).34 Typological interpretation should be distinguished from allegorical interpretation in that allegorists see meanings that are under and different from the plain literal
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