By CHARLES HARRIS The allegorical method of interpreting Holy Writ, inherited by the Church from the Synagogue, was not a hindrance to the propagation of Christianity among the educated classes of the Empire, but rather an assistance; for most if not all of the contemporary schools of philosophy, except the Aristotelian, had long been accustomed to interpret allegorically the poems of Homer and Hesiod, which were so generally venerated that they may be spoken of with little exaggeration