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Chapter XXVIII. Macarius another monk, wrote at Rome books Against the mathematicians, in which labour he sought the comfort of oriental writings · Chapter LI. Another Evagrius Wrote a Discussion Between Simon the Jew and Theophilus the Christian, a Work Which Is Very Well Known

Chapter LXI

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Victorinus,2679 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 four2680 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.

He died in the reign of Theodosius and Valentinianus.

Notes

  1. 2679

    Claudius Marius Victor (Victorius or Victorinus) of Marseilles died 445.

  2. 2680

    fourA T 31 a e; three 25 30.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Volume 3, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1890–1900). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.