Primary source · Latin
Against Arius (Adversus Arium)
Marius Victorinus · c. AD 359–363
What this text is
Rome's most celebrated professor, converted in old age to the city's astonishment, turns Neoplatonic metaphysics into the deepest Latin defence of the homoousion before Augustine.
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Public-domain translations
Literal gloss of the Latin
The Logos is the form and image of the living God, movement of the ever-still, light from light: consubstantial with the Father — for if he were made from nothing, God would once have been without his own Word.
Manuscript witnesses
Carolingian tradition
9th c. onwardAdversus Arium and the hymns — the philosopher whose conversion staggered Rome (Conf. VIII.2).
Patrologia Latina, vol. 8 (Migne)
1844Standard pre-critical text of the corpus.
Provenance
Rome, c. AD 359–363 — the converted rhetor's Neoplatonic Trinitarianism
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Marius Victorinus: Traités théologiques sur la Trinité (SC 68–69)Paul Henry & Pierre Hadot, 1960The critical edition with French translation.
- Theological Treatises on the Trinity (FOC 69)Mary T. Clark, 1981Faithful English translation.