The debate over the authorship of the allegorical interpretation of Heliodorus’ novel extant in codex Marc. Gr. 410 (coll. 522) bequeathed to subsequent scholarship the assumption that the text belongs to the Neoplatonic allegorical tradition of reading Homer. This essay aims to revisit this philosophical attribution and argue that the terms and philosophical categories alluded in this allegory are characteristic of a long tradition of Patristic analysis, and more specifically of Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus Confessor’s exegesis. Setting forth new textual evidence, it argues that the exegetical practice displayed in the allegory reflects Maximus Confessor’s anagogical exegesis (i. e., the etymological and numerical speculations) and Gregory of Nyssa’s pedagogy of desire and doctrine of spiritual progress as set forth in the Homilies on the Song of Songs and The Life of Moses.

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Philip-Philagathos 对 Heliodorus 的 Aithiopika 的寓言解释：爱神、模仿和圣经的类解解经

关于现存于马克抄本中的赫利奥多罗斯小说的寓言解释作者身份的争论。尺寸 410 (coll. 522) 给后来的学术留下了这样的假设：文本属于阅读荷马的新柏拉图寓言传统。本文旨在重新审视这一哲学归因，并认为该寓言中提到的术语和哲学类别是教父分析的悠久传统的特征，更具体地说是尼萨的格雷戈里和马克西姆斯忏悔者的注释。提出新的文本证据，它认为寓言中显示的解经实践反映了马克西姆斯忏悔者的神学解经（即，