 The writers of the Antiochene School disliked the allegorical method, and sought almost exclusively the literal, primary, or historical sense of Holy Scripture.The principal writers of this school were

The great representatives of this school were Diodorus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, and St. John Chrysostom.Diodorus, who died Bishop of Tarsus (394), followed the literal to the exclusion of the mystical or allegorical sense.