really am not persuaded by what the early church fathers said when it comes in conflict with Scripture. The church fathers as men could be prone to error in interpretation but Scripture is God-breathed. But even then, your point is wrong. Victorinus's commentary on Revelation has the rapture appropriately occurring before the Great Tribulation. And considering he wrote it in
260 AD I think it's safe to say he had the idea before Darby. =
you are 100% absolutely, completely, unequivocally, and utterly
wrong concerning Victorinus.
Victorinus, On the Apocalypse of John, 20:1-3 (A.D. 270)
“The little season signifies three years and six months, in which with all his power the devil will avenge himself under Antichrist against the Church. Finally, he says, after that the devil shall be loosed, and will seduce the nations in the whole world, and will entice war against the Church, the number of whose foes shall be as the sand of the sea.”
concerning the Book of Revelation itself, this is his commentary
ANF07. Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
you can read it when you want, but I'm going to highlight the important stuff for you
4, 5. “And I saw thrones, and them that sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them; and I saw the souls of them that were slain on account of the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast nor his image, nor have received his writing on their forehead or in their hand; and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years: the rest of them lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.”] There are two resurrections. But the first resurrection is now of the souls that are by the faith, which does not permit men to pass over to the second death. Of this resurrection the apostle says: “If ye have risen with Christ, seek those things which are above.”
6. “Blessed and holy is he who has part in this resurrection: on them the second death shall have no power, but they shall be priests of God and Christ, and they shall reign with Him a thousand years.”] I do not think the reign of a thousand years is eternal; or if it is thus to be thought of, they cease to reign when the thousand years are finished. But I will put forward what my capacity enables me to judge. The tenfold number signifies the decalogue, and the hundredfold sets forth the crown of virginity: for he who shall have kept the undertaking of virginity completely, and shall have faithfully fulfilled the precepts of the decalogue, and shall have destroyed the untrained nature or impure thoughts within the retirement of the heart, that they may not rule over him, this is the true priest of Christ, and accomplishing the millenary number thoroughly, is thought to reign with Christ; and truly in his case the devil is bound. But he who is entangled in the vices and the dogmas of heretics, in his case the devil is loosed. But that it says that when the thousand years are finished he is loosed, so the number of the perfect saints being completed, in whom there is the glory of virginity in body and mind, by the approaching advent of the kingdom of the hateful one, many, seduced by that love of earthly things, shall be overthrown, and together with him shall enter the lake of fire.
8–10. “And they went up upon the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city; and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil who seduced them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where both the beast and the false prophet shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”] This belongs to the last judgment. And after a little time the earth was made holy, as being at least that wherein lately had reposed the bodies of the virgins, when they shall enter upon an eternal kingdom with an immortal King, as they who are not only virgins in body, but, moreover, with equal inviolability have protected themselves, both in tongue and thought, from wickedness; and these, it shows, shall dwell in rejoicing for ever with the Lamb.
Victorinus, by no means WHATSOEVER, held to the belief of some "pre-wrath" rapture, nor did he hole to a pre-tribulation rapture, or a post-tribulation rapture... he didn't even teach the concept of a rapture, because he expresses an early amillennial and possible postmillennial perspective on the book of Revelation.
your "pre-wrath" didn't even exist until its creation in the early 90's with Marvin Rosenthal and Robert Van Kampen.
the simple fact is that you follow a doctrine created by man... a very new doctrine that has absolutely NO Biblical support, and no credibility concerning church history.
next time, do some research before making claims.