other · 369 · Antioch
Libanius, the great pagan rhetorician, taught John and Theodore and Maximus in Antioch, and is supposed to have said on his deathbed that John would have succeeded him if the Christians had not taken him. What took him was this: an asketerion under Diodore and Carterius, where the reading of scripture was disciplined and deliberately literal. Socrates says Diodore wrote many treatises in which he limited his attention to the literal sense, avoiding that which was mystical — which is the Antiochene method in one sentence, and the opposite of what Alexandria was doing. Diodore ended as bishop of Tarsus and died in communion with everybody; a century and a half later his name was being attached to the Nestorian question by people arguing backwards from his pupils. This dataset holds his page and had no event on it, and the two teacher_of edges to John and Theodore hung on no occasion at all.
To keep a monastic school in Antioch where young men out of the rhetoric lecture halls could be taught scripture.
The Antiochene exegesis, and the two pupils who carried it — one to Constantinople and one to a posthumous condemnation.