Don Johnson

FWIIW, I see the 2nd century as being the flowering of the gentilization of the church, this was a sea change from the 1st century Jewish believers at first.  I see this loss of Hebrew context as one reason for the allegorical method of interpreting Scripture, since it was the word of God, it needed to be put to SOME use but some parts were not understood in their original context and this neededcontext was lost more and more over the centuries.  So while the early church fathers provide SOME evidence, they are certainly not infallible, not even as a group, contra the RCC and EOC claims.