Abstract
This article discusses what later became a sharp controversy in the ancient church over how to properly interpret the Scriptures. The Antiochene School, located in the very city that housed the apostle Paul’s home church during his missionary journeys, emphasized the historical meaning of the Bible. The Alexandrian School, centered in the Greco-Roman Hellenism of Egypt, emphasized allegory. When Paul disparaged the legalism being taught in Ephesus in 1 Timothy 1:4 as “myth and endless genealogies,” the denunciation of allegorism of Scripture was included in his criticism.
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