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What manner of commentary did Theodore of Mopsuestia offer on the books of the Bible?

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His commentaries on the various books of the Bible were historical and rationalistic; he was one of the first Christians to consider the Song of Songs a marriage poem rather than an allegory, and he was opposed to a Messianic interpretation of the Psalms.

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