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Various Church Fathers

Victorinus the rhetorician.

Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men. — translated by ANF/NPNF editors

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Chapter LXI.

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Victorinus, a rhetorician of Marseilles, wrote to his son Etherius, a commentary On Genesis, commenting, that is, from the beginning of the book to the death of the patriarch Abraham, and published four books in verse, words which have a savour of piety indeed, but, in that he was a man busied with secular literature and quite untrained in the Divine Scriptures, they are of slight weight, so far as ideas are concerned.

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He died in the reign of Theodosius and Valentinianus.

Translated by ANF/NPNF editors. Edition ccel.npnf203.division.v.en.

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