Victor of Antioch (Greek: Βίκτωρ της Αντιόχειας) ( in 407–444)John W. Burgon, The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established (Oxford and London: James Parker and Co., 1871), pp. 59–65 and Appendix D (pp. 269–287). was an early Christian presbyter and biblical commentator.Harold Smith, "The Sources of Victory of Antioch's Commentary on Mark", The Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 19 (O.S.), Np. 76 (1918), pp. 350–370. A contemporary of John Chrysostom, he wrote a Greek catena on the Gospel of Mark, the Catena in Marcum, in which he defended the view entertained by the Church at the time, with references to fasting and the belief that Christians have entire liberty of action.Victor of Antioch in John McClintock and James Strong, eds., Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature, Vol. 10 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1881), p. 774. McClintock and Strong call him a bishop.
Although often considered the earliest known commentary on Mark, the 7th-century commentary of Pseudo-Jerome is a more original work.Michael Cahill, ed., The First Commentary on Mark: An Annotated Translation (Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 3. Nevertheless, Victor's Catena in Marcum contains some original material, especially when comparing the different Gospels.
Several catenae on the Gospel of Luke cite certain opinions to Victor, indicating that he wrote a commentary on Luke, but this is lost apart from these quotations.
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