Innocent now renewed the ban against them at the Fourth Lateran Council of A.
As an exegete he indulged to his heart’s content in typology, but in other respects mostly followed the grammatico-historical method with a constant endeavour after what was edifying.
At the same time he is the first exegete proper among the Western fathers writing the Latin language.
As an exegete he followed the course of grammatico-historical exposition marked out by his Antiochean predecessors, but avoided the rationalistic tendencies of his teacher.
As exegete and dogmatist, he has, like a John Gerhard and Quenstedt of the nineteenth century, reproduced the Lutheran theology of the seventeenth century, unmodified by the developments of modern thought.
As anexegete and theological author he has much in common with the Alexandrians, just as he is in more than one respect a connecting link between Catholic controversialists like Irenæus and Catholic scholars like Origen.
Hippolytus is an exegete and accordingly still yielded with comparative impartiality to the impressions conveyed by the several passages.
But, as this method implied the acknowledgment of a sacred literature, Origen was an exegete who believed in the Holy Scriptures and indeed, at bottom, he viewed all theology as a methodical exegesis of Holy Writ.
Another Christian exegete of the same period, William of Mara, cites Rashi's commentary under the title of Perus.
The exegete searches for the idea in the text; the Haggadist introduces foreign ideas into the text.
It remained for a Christian exegete to free rational exegesis from the discredit into which it had fallen.
The task of the exegete properly so called is quite different.
Both as an exegete and as a typologist he appears as a disciple of the Pharisees.
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