Victorinus of Poetovio

Victorinus episcopus Poetouionensis

Biography

Born around 230, Victorinus, bishop of Pettau (in present-day Slovenia), died a martyr in 304 during the persecution of Diocletian. His life is known mostly thanks to Jerome, who adapted his Commentary on the Revelation of John, the first such commentary we know of (SC 423). Jerome held in high esteem this Latin exegete well-read in Greek authors too (particularly Hippolytus and Origen), even though he did not share his millenarianist ideas; he therefore modified the last chapters of the commentary on Revelation. Victorinus is also the author of a short treatise On the Construction of the World, a typological meditation on the story of creation, and a chronological fragment about the life of Jesus.

Works

• Commentarii in Apocalypsim Ioannis
• Tractatus de fabrica mundi

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Quotations

• [JB] Ge
• [JB] Ge 1:1
• [JB] Ge 1:14-19
• [JB] Ge 1:16-19
• [JB] Ge 1:20-23

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