Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1569
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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Again, in different passages he marks pretty accurately the time or times at which he wrote. Thus, in the first book [3202] he speaks of about three hundred years as the time during which Christianity had existed; and in the second, [3203] of a thousand and fifty, or not many less, having elapsed since the foundation of Rome. There has been much discussion as to what era is here referred to; and it has been pretty generally assumed that the Fabian must be intended,--in which case 303 would be the year meant. If it is observed, however, that Arnobius shows an intimate acquaintance with …
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