between them and the Alexandrians. For example, Theodoret of Cyrus was much more likely to find Christ prefigured in a given Old Testament passage than was Theodore of Mopsuestia, thus making Theodoret less “literal” than Theodore in the minds of contemporary scholars, but making Theodoret more Christian in the mind of the early church.7 Another poignant example is that Eustathius (one of the early so-called Antiochenes) gives Origen (the examplar of the Alexandrian allegorizers) a thorough tongue