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• Influenced by Philo who attributed the Scriptures with historical, ethical, and spiritual meaning

• Athenagoras of Athens — see Apologists
  • first head of the Alexandrian catechetical school
• Pantaenus the Sicilian
• Clement of Alexandria, 150–214 — see Ante-Nicene Fathers
  • studied under Pantaenus
• Origen, c. 184–255 — see under Ante-Nicene Fathers
• Heraclas​
• Dionysius, c. 190–265, bishop of Alexandria (247–265)
  • major work: on the Promises
  • commentaries on Ecclesiastes and Luke
• Eusebius of Caesarea, c. 260–c. 339
  • historian
  • trained in allegorical method by Pamphilus, Origen's student
  • wrote commentaries on Isaiah, Psalms, and Luke
• Athanasius, c. 295–373 — see Nicene Fathers
• Didymus the Blind, c. 313–c.398
  • disciple of Origen
  • wrote many commentaries
  • focused on two senses of Scripture, literal and spiritual
• Cyril of Alexandria, Saint, 380–444
  • opponent of Nestorians
  • wrote Contra Diodorum et Theodorum, accusing Theodore of Nestorianism
  • wrote Adoration and Worship in Spirit and Truth and Glaphyra
  • also wrote commentaries on Isaiah, the Minor Prophets, and the Gospel of John