Victorinus of Pettau
(d. c. 304)
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Synopsis
We have very little information about Victorinus apart from two snippets: he was bishop of Pattau in Pannonia and suffered martyrdom under emperor Diocletian. Almost all of his works are lost, a fact that is probably due to his posthumous condemnation as a heretic in late fifth-early sixth century. His ‘heresy’ was to hold to millennarianism (better known today as premillennialism) - the belief that Christ would return and rule with his saints on earth for a thousand years. |
Primary Sources
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Jerome, Lives of Illustrius Men 74. |
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Jerome, Letters 58.10; 70.5 |
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Victorinus (Christian Classic Ethereal Library) |
Secondary Sources
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F.L. Cross, The Early Christian Fathers. Studies in Theology 1. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1960. Hbk. p.187. |
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F.F. Bruce, "The Earliest Latin Commentary
on the Apocalypse," The Evangelical Quarterly 10.4 (Oct. 1938):
352-366. pdf |
Biographies
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St. Victorinus (Leon Clugnet) |
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