Arnobius

Also known as Arnobius Afer, Arnobius the Elder, Arnobius Major

Arnobius (died c. 330) was an early Christian apologist of Berber origin during the reign of Diocletian (284–305).

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Born: 3rd cent.
Died: c. 330
Works: 24

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The case against the pagans
Arnobii Adversvs nationes libri VII
Adversus gentes libri VII
Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. Volume 19
Arnobius Against The Heathen

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Adversus Nationes Libri VII
· 1937

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Quotes

“Will you, laying aside all partiality, consider in the silence of your thoughts that we [humans] are creatures either quite like the rest [of animals], or separated by no great difference? For what is there to show that we do not resemble them? or what excellence is in us, such that we scorn to be ranked as creatures? Their bodies are built up on bones, and bound closely together by sinews; and our bodies are in like manner built up on bones, and bound closely together by sinews.”

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Philosopher.name: Arnobius
Philosopher.image: Арнобий Старший -Arnobius of Sicca.jpg
Philosopher.other_names: Arnobius the Elder, Arnobius Afer, Arnobius of Sicca
Philosopher.death_date: c. 330
Philosopher.death_place: Ancient Rome
Philosopher.occupation: Theologian, writer
Philosopher.region: Western philosophy
Philosopher.era: Roman philosophy
Philosopher.notable_ideas: Early form of the Pascal's Wager
Philosopher.notable_works: Adversus nationes

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date of birth: 0255-01-01
date of death: 0327-01-01
end of work period: 0400-00-00
start of work period: 0300-00-00
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Works in European collections

12 objects attributed to Arnobius, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Arnobii Afri Adversus Gentes Libri VII : Cum Recensione Viri Celeberrimi, & integris omnium commentariis

ARNOBII DISPVTATIONVM ADVERSVS GENTES LIBRI OCTO :

IO. FROBENIVS PIO LECTORI S.D. En optime lector, rarum damus thesaurum, & nihil non nouum /

ARNOBII APHRI VETVSTI PARITER ac laudatissimi scriptoris in omneis psalmos co [m] mentarij, iuxta pij sane atq [ue] eruditi /

ARNOBII APHRI VETUSTI PARITER ac laudatissimi scriptoris in omneis Psalmos commentarii /

Arnobii Dispvtationvm Adversvs Gentes libri VIII. nunc demum sic accuravi, ut ab eruditis sine ulla offensatione [et] cum maiore lectionis operae pretio cognosci poßint [Ex redactione Sigismundi Gelenii]

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Arnobius (died c. 330) was an early Christian apologist of Berber origin during the reign of Diocletian (284–305).

According to Jerome's Chronicle, Arnobius, before his conversion, was a distinguished Numidian rhetorician at Sicca Veneria (El Kef, Tunisia), a major Christian center in Proconsular Africa, and owed his conversion to a premonitory dream. However, Arnobius writes dismissively of dreams in his surviving book.