Theodore of Mopsuestia

Theodore was the greatest exegete of the Antiochene school — the tradition that read scripture historically and grammatically, against the Alexandrian habit of allegorising everything. He insisted on the real humanity of Christ, the literal sense of the Old Testament, and a clean separation between the testaments. The Council of Constantinople in 553 condemned some of his writings posthumously because they were read as the seed of Nestorianism. But the Church of the East still reveres him as 'the Interpreter,' and modern biblical scholarship — historical, grammatical, contextual — is closer to Theodore than to Origen.