Patristic Exegesis (100-600 AD) Alexandrian pg 52

• The School of Alexandria with Clement of Alexandria (150-215 AD) = Scriptures hide their true meaning

• Origen (185-254 AD) Noted successor of Clement, Scripture is one vast allegory in which every detail is symbolic.

• As humans are body soul and spirit, so Scripture has a literal sense, moral/ethical sense, and a spirit/allegorical/mystical sense.

• Origen constantly employed allegory since “only allegory yields true knowledge”!

• Their desire to understand the OT as a 'Christian Document' caused them to completely ignore the literal meanings of Scripture, and seeded Roman Catholic Hermeneutics, from which the world has not yet recovered.

• There remained no regulative principle to govern exegesis, ergo Catholicism, ergo Alexandrian manuscripts in modernist bibles.