The Church Fathers used both Scripture and Tradition to explain and defend the Catholic faith.
Which explains the rampant heresy and the intro duction of paganism into the church.
So the Protestants all the sudden rediscovered the true hidden meaning some 1600 years later?
How quaint. I’m not about to address your strawman accusing the Church Fathers of paganism.
In the Protestant case, it’s invent your own religion.