He pointed out many instances of agreement, and some of disagreement, but he objected in general to the allegorizing of the historical parts of the Torah and to the absence of the traditional interpretations in Philo's commentaries.
Philo's philosophy was in great part a philosophy of the law; the Patristic school borrowed his allegorizingmethod and produced a philosophy of religious dogma!
Its philosophical allegorizing might attract the Gentile to the Jewish Scriptures, but it also led the Jew away from his special conduct of life.
Was it to this that the allegorizing of the law, the search for the spirit beneath the letter, the reinterpretation of the holy law of Moses in the light of philosophical reason, had brought Judaism?
Ambrosiaster= is the name given to an unknown writer whose allegorizing Commentary on Paul’s Epistles was long attributed to Ambrose.
Old Testament in an allegorizing fashion for apologetic purposes; and the treatise against Hierocles (§ 23, 3) contests his comparison of Christ with Apollonius of Tyana.
He is weakest in exegesis, where the most wilful allegorizing prevails.
The allegorizing of the Scriptures had long before his time settled down into a system.
The extent to which the Scripture was subject to allegorizing may be guessed from the fact that Isidore specifies that “the ten commandments must be taken literally”.
Neander says, "The other Gnostics united with their theosophical idealism a mystical, allegorizing interpretation of the Scriptures.
Marcion, moreover, opposed allegorizing the sayings of Scripture, and insisted on their literal interpretation.
Paul, on two occasions, follows the Hellenistic mode of allegorizing the sacred text.
Scriptures, Christian: Allegorizing of: Examples of: David and Bathsheba episode, ii.
The symbol is first mentioned by Clement of Alexandria,[408] and probably had its origin in the allegorizing school of Christianity which sprang up in that city.
An allegorizing spirit, however, will often discover a meaning in a fresco or relief altogether unthought of by the original artist.
The allegorizing method, it should be observed, though it appears with greater or less influence, is not employed with any exclusiveness, but takes its place with other resources of his art.
After the classical revival there was a return to the allegorizing method, the fondness for which has not yet completely died out.
Being the embodiment of human experiences, they lend themselves readily to processes of allegorizing and spiritualizing.
Hence arose the whole system of allegorizingwhich prevailed so extensively among the Jews of Alexandria.
The allusions to passages of Scripture are continual, but mostly of a swiftly passing, combinatory, allegorizing kind.
They reconciled Greek literature and the Scriptures by allegorizing both, much as today Darwin and Genesis are reconciled by allegorizing Genesis.
Bacon's final conclusion seems to be that, although allegorical poetry does exist, allegory is not essential to poetry and that the wholesale allegorizing of the middle ages was far off the mark.
