His homilies are characterised by rhetorical emphasis of scriptural texts accompanied by exclamations and praises resembling prose hymns more than sermons,[2] typical of Greek piety.
[2] Using as his foundation the exegesis of selected scriptural passages long standardised in the works of preceding theologians like the Cappadocian Fathers, Chrysippus makes use of traditional praises of Mary by identifying her as the Ark of the Covenant and Ever-Virgin.
Further to this, he acclaims her as "root of all good things" in language concident with that of earlier contemporaries Cyril of Alexandria and Proclus of Constantinople.
Nevertheless, some scholars have argued for a 5th-century provenance for the Akathist,[5][6] and together with the evidence that Proclus' Marian praise drew in part from extant hymnography now known to have been in use in Jerusalem prior to Ephesus,[7] the possibility is raised that Chrysippus was adapting existing liturgical material for his audience, which was composed chiefly of monks.
[2] Limberis characterises the oration as "an example of the encomiastic hymn as the ideal conveyance for Mariological veneration" and describes Chrysippus as having a "central role in helping to spread the cult of the Theotokos.