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Marius Victorinus, a contemporary of St. Ambrose and one who had considerable influence on St. Augustine—he has been styled “an Augustine before Augustine”—is an important fourth-century Neoplatonist. Before his conversion to Christianity Marius Victorinus wrote commentaries on works of Cicero and translated Aristotle’s tracts on logic and some Neoplatonic books into Latin. After his conversion,...

Titus, spoke of “the people periousion,”243 (close to the substance), that is, close to the life constituting a people, as it is said in the oblation prayer: “Purify for yourself this people, standing fast in life, zealous for good works, assembling around your substance.” And it seems to me that the same thing is signified in Jeremiah the prophet, where he says: “Who is he who stands in the substance of the Lord, who has lent his ear and heard?”244 And after awhile he says: “And if they had stood
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