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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“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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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.