In our author rises before us another contributor to Latin Christianity, which was still North-African in its literature, all but exclusively. He had learned of Tertullian and Cyprian what he was to impart to his brilliant pupil Lactantius. Thus the way was prepared for Augustine, by whom and in whom Latin Christianity was made distinctly Occidental, and prepared for the influence it has exerted, to this day, under the mighty prestiges of his single name. TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. ...

Arnobius of Sicca (died c. 330) was an Early Christian apologist, during the reign of Diocletian (284305). 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. Arnobius writes dismissively of dreams in his surviving book, so perhaps Jerome was projecting his own respect for the content of dreams. According ...

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. To overcome the doubts of the local bishop as to the earnestness of his Christian belief Arnobius wrote (about 305) an apologetic work in seven books that St. Jerome calls (De Vir. Ill., lxxix) "Adversus Gentes" but is entitled "Adversus Nationes" in the only (...

This anthology edited by Philip Schaff, a renowned ecclesiastic historian, includes the most important works by early Christian theologians. Their comportment and sacrifice, their lectures and preaching, their moral values, and their understanding of Christianity and its most precious messages - shaped the foundations of the Christianity, helping it spread throughout the Roman Empire and beyond its borders during the first centuries after the death of Jesus. The edition includes: Volume I:...

Arnobius ist ein energischer Apologet des christlichen Glaubens, verteidigt und erklärt dessen edlen Monotheismus (deus princeps, deus summus), die Göttlichkeit Christi und der christlichen Religion, bewiesen durch deren schnelle Verbreitung, ihren unglaublichen Einfluss auf unzivilisierte Völker und ihre Übereinstimmung mit den Ansichten der besten Philosophen. Die heidnische Götzenverehrung widerlegt er als voller Widersprüche und offen unmoralisch. Sein Werk, vor allem die Bücher III-IV...