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Next he cites Arnobius.

For whatever is round, and bounded on every side by the
circuмference of a solid sphere, has no beginning, no end; where there
is no end and beginning, no part can have its own name and form the
beginning. Therefore, when we say, This is the right, and that the left
side, we do not refer to anything in the world, which is everywhere
very much the same, but to our own place and position, we being so
formed that we speak of some things as on our right hand, of others as
on our left; and yet these very things which we name left, and the
others which we name right, have in us no continuance, no fixedness,
but take their forms from our sides, just as chance, and the accident of
the moment, may have placed us. If I look towards the rising sun, the
north pole and the north are on my left hand; and if I turn my face
there, the west will be on my left, for it will be regarded as behind the
sun’s back. But, again, if I turn my eyes to the region of the west, the
wind and country of the south are now said to be on my left.

Again, the italics are those of Dr. Sungenis.  It is becoming increasingly apparent that every time Dr. Sungenis sees the word "sphere" or "globe", he checks it off as proof that the Church Father who uttered that word believed that the earth is a globe.

This is the ultimate confirmation bias.

So in most of the passage he's simply talking about how "right" and "left" are relative terms based on the direction you're facing.  OK, and?

In the first sentence there, he says [presumably the earth] is "ROUND, and BOUNDED on every side by the circuмference of a solid sphere".  So the earth is ROUND and BOUNDED by a solid sphere.  He doesn't say that the earth on which we live is a solid sphere.  In fact, this passage implies the exact opposite, that the surface of the earth is ROUND, as it's BOUNDED (at its edges) by a SOLID SPHERE (where the firmament touches down).  That sounds again much more like the description of "snow globe" earth than that it's a solid sphere.  He does not say that it IS a SOLID SPHERE, but that it is BOUNDED by a solid sphere.  Can someone who interprets this to mean that the earth is a globe please explain how the expression "ROUND AND BOUNDED BY A SOLID SPHERE" possibly describes a solid globe on which people live?

Then he says something curious, that if he turns north, the West will be on his left, which is "regarded as behind the sun's back".  I'm not sure what he would mean about the West behind behind the SUN's back.  Does he regard the sun as facing East and travelling backwards?  That's a side question, but interesting on its own.

Next are two separate quotes from Athenagoras:

For if the world, being made spherical, is confined
within the circles of heaven, and the Creator of the world is above the
things created, managing that by His providential care of these, what
place is there for the second god, or for the other gods?

and

Beautiful without doubt is the world, excelling, as well
in its magnitude as in the arrangement of its parts, both those in the
oblique circle and those about the north, and also in its spherical
form.

So, the "world, being made spherical" and "confined with in the circles of heaven".  There's nothing about this that rules out once again the snow-globe view.  This is yet another case of Dr. Sungenis seeing the word "sphere" and then interpreting it as proof for our living on a globe.

In fact, if you think about it, if this means that the SURFACE of the earth is a globe, and people live on the surface, then if the globe is suspended in the heavens, what exactly is the barrier between the heavens and the surface dwellers?  In fact they would be on the edge of the line between the globe and the heavens ... which of course they believed to be WATERS.  So with Sungenis' iterpretation, they'd have to have completely discarded the notion that there's a firmament above the earth separating the inhabitants of the earth from the waters above.  So when did these Fathers abandon that notion?

This second passage probably requires some deeper analysis.  So he describes "the world" (same term he used in the first passage) as consisting of "parts".  And he refers to some parts being in the "oblique circle", some "about the north", and others "in its spherical form".  Again we have some combination of a CIRLCE along with a SPHERE.  How are the circle and the sphere related?  If you recall, earlier we saw Arnobius saying that the earth is ROUND and BOUNDED by a circle.  Between that passage and this one,  you get the impression or a world more like this.



It would be interesting to see the original languages, to see how they use the term translated here as "world" vs. when they might use "earth".  It really does appear to me that the term "world" is much bigger than just the surface of the earth, and attempting to equate the term with the surface of the earth actually begs the question about whether they're talking about a globe earth surface.