He is known to us only as the author of one or two works of very little importance, which
have sometimes been attributed to Arnobius the elder.
an allegorical commentary on the Psalms
We possess under his name an allegorical commentary on the Psalms, which is inscribed to
Leontius, bishop of Arles, and Rusticus, bishop of Narbonne. This commentary, though the
notes are very brief, contains sufficient evidence that the author was a Semipelagian.
Editions
It was first printed at Basel (1522, 4to.) together with Erasmus's commentary on
Psalm ii., and was reprinted at Cologne, 1532, 8vo.A much better edition than either of these is that by L. de la Barre, Paris, 1639,
8vo., which also contains some notes by the same Arnobius on several passages
of the Gospels, which had been published separately before by G. Cognant, Basel, 1543,
8vo.The commentary of Arnobius is also contained in the Bibl. Patr. (Lugdun. vol.
viii.).
Altercatio cum Serapione AegyptioThere is also contained in the Bibl. Patr. (Lugdun. vol. viii.) to him a work
entitled Altercatio cum Serapione Aegyptio; but the
principles of the Arnobius who speaks in this Altercatio are strictly those of St. Augustin,
and it cannot be the work of a Semipelagian.
PraedestinatusSirmond has endeavoured to shew, that our Arnobius the Younger is the author of the work
which bears the title
Praedestinatus, and which has come down
to us as the production of an anonymous writer; but his arguments are not satisfactory.