 St. Isidore of Pelusium said of him that if the Apostle St. Paul could have used Attic speech he would have explained his own Epistles in the identical words of St. John Chrysostom.Other writers combined both these systems, some leaning more to the allegorical and some to the literal sense.The principal contributors were

Jerome, besides his translations of Scripture and other works, left many commentaries, in some of which he departed from the literal meaning of the text.