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Arnobius of Sicca

4th century · AD 330 · Early Fathers (before Nicaea) · 13 passages

Background on Arnobius of Sicca

In his own words on Acts

  • Acts 10:15

    Or, as is usually done, does that deity abstain from the flesh of goats because of some reverential and religious scruple, another turn with disgust from pork, while to this mutton stinks? and does this one avoid tough ox-beef that he may not overtax his weak stomach, and choose tender sucklings that he may digest them more speedily?

    Against the Heathen Book 7

Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.