1Victorinus's first hymn invokes Father, Son and Holy Spirit and sets out in verse his teaching that the Son is the motion and life of the Father's rest, one substance with him, and the Spirit the bond who returns all to the Father.
2Victorinus's second hymn is a litany of “Have mercy, Lord; have mercy, Christ”, confessing the Son's consubstantial life and asking for help in turning from the world to God.
3Victorinus's third hymn is a litany to the blessed Trinity, naming Father, Son and Spirit through triads such as substance, form and knowledge, love, grace and communion, and fountain, river and watering.
authentic · Accepted as Marius Victorinus's own; the lines are printed in Migne with line-end divisions.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Writer in the church of his time, not venerated by any of the three traditions.
Date
ca. 357–362 (approximate) · After his conversion (ca. 355) and before he left teaching under Julian's edict (362); the Trinitarian treatises are dated to the late 350s.
Written at
Rome, Italy (probable)
Language
Latin
Genre
poem
Reference system
hymn (1–3 as in Migne, PL 8:1139–1146)
SBL abbreviation
Hymn. Trin.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPL 99 (not yet checked)
Text from
J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae cursus completus, series Latina, vol. 8 (Paris, 1844), from the editions of A. Mai (Rome, 1828) and the Benedictine Mabillon (Analecta) (Printed edition (Migne, 1844) in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)