Theodore of Mopsuestia — the Interpreter.
His biblical commentaries are the church's standard reading of scripture and his christology underlies its liturgy; the Syriac tradition calls him simply Mepashqana, the Interpreter. The Second Council of Constantinople condemned him in 553, a century and a half after his death. The Church of the East was outside the empire, did not attend, and kept him.
Theodore, bishop of Mopsuestia and teacher of both Nestorius and John Chrysostom, wrote commentaries on most of the Bible with an emphasis on the literal and historical sense — a method that shaped the school of Nisibis and through it every East Syriac cleric. His condemnation in 553, in the affair of the Three Chapters, was a political settlement aimed at reconciling the non-Chalcedonians and it failed at that. Because much of his Greek was destroyed, some of his work survives only in Syriac translation preserved by this church. The church's refusal to drop him is therefore not sentimental: he is a source of the texts.
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