Philo About the Contemplative Life (De Vita Contemplativa)

Theology; and that, although this most spiritual of authors is by the admission, tacit or express, of a long line of Catholic teachers, from Eusebius and Ambrose in the fourth century down to Bull and Döllinger in modern times, the father not only of Christian exegesis critical explanation or interpretation of a text, but also, to a great extent, of Christian dogmatics systematic theology.