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Even if readers take these physical metamorphoses to represent moral changes, as Renaissance allegorizers commonly interpreted them, [9] the myth cannot persuade against violence, dehumanization, as long as it dehumanizes.

Nevertheless, omitting Origen from the discussion leaves the reader with the impression that all Alexandrian theologians were allegorizers who had no appreciation for the body and for the human either in their Christology or in their theological anthropology.