Victorinus worked as a bishop in the Roman colony Petovium (Poetovio/Pettau, now Ptuj in Slovenia) in the second half of the 3rd century CE and suffered martyrdom probably in 304 CE during the persecution of Christians under the emperor Diocletian. According to Jerome (Vir. ill. 74), the main, but sparse source regarding his biography and oeuvre, Victorinus wrote a number of texts, mainly commentaries on biblical books (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Habakkuk, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Matt…