Status Updates From A History of Christianity: ...

"In viewing the biblical text in this way Origen followed Clement in relishing the use of an ‘allegorical’ method of understanding the meaning of literary texts, which by then had a long history in Greek scholarship. This is how learned Greeks had read Homer and how learned Alexandrian Jews like Philo had read the Tanakh."

This feels wrong to me, personally. I feel like you should commit to your sacred texts.