A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

VICTOR of Marseille.

CLAUDIUS MARIUS VICTOR, or Victorinus, a Rhetorician at * 1.1 Marseille, hath made a Commentary upon Genesis, beginning at the Creation, and ending at the Death of Abraham. It was divided into Three Books, dedicated to his Son Aetherius. It is evident that it was composed by a Christian, and an Orthodox Person: But since prophane Learning was the principal Employment of this Author, and he was not instructed by any able Teacher in the Knowledge of Holy Scripture, this Work was very weak. He died under the Empire of Theodosius and Valentinian. This is taken out of Gennadius, Chap. 60. The Work of this Author, which is extant * 1.2 in the Bibliotheca Patrum [Tom. 8.] is a Poem in Latin Heroicks, and contains a Narration of the History of G•…•…s to the Death of Abraham. The Style of it is harsh, and the Verses are rough, but the Sence is Noble, and the History very well explained. There are at the end of it some Verses of the same Author, against the Corruption of the Manners of his Time.

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• * 1.1

  Victor of Marseille.
• * 1.2

  It also is printed by it self at Pa∣ris in 1560. in Octavo.