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Encyclopedia Britannica



NUMENIUS

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 866 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NUMENIUS , a Greek philosopher, of Apamea in Syria, Neo-Pythagorean and forerunner of the Neo-Platonists, flourished during the latter half of the end century A.D. He seems to have taken
Pythagoras
  as his highest authority, while at the same time he chiefly follows Plato. He calls the latter an "Atticizing Moses." His
chief
  divergence from Plato is the distinction between the " first god " and the " demiurge." This is probably due to the influence of the Valentinian Gnostics and the Jewish-Alexandrian philosophers (especially
Philo
  and his theory of the Logos). According to
Proclus
  (Comment. in Timaeum, 93) Numenius held that there was a kind of trinity of gods, the members of which he designated as 1rarilp, 7roorris, aolruia (" father," " maker," " that which is made," i.e. the world), or 7razraos, EKyovos, 67r6yovos (which
Proclus
  calls " exaggerated language "). The first is the supreme deity or pure intelligence (vows), the second the creator of the world (677tovpy6s), the third the world (KO(1os). His works were highly esteemed by the Neoplatonists, and Amelius is said to have composed nearly too books of commentaries upon them.
Fragments of his
treatises
  on the points of divergence between the Academicians and Plato, on the Good (in which according to Origen, Contra Celsum, iv. 51, he makes allusion to Jesus Christ), and on the mystical sayings in Plato, are preserved in the Praeparatio Evangelica of
Eusebius
 . The fragments are collected in F. G. Mullach, Frag. Phil.
Gram
  iii.; see also F. Thedinga, De Numenio philosopho Platonico (
Bonn
 , 1875); Ritter and
Preller
 , Hist. Phil. Graecae (ed. E. Wellmann, 1898), 624-7; T. Whittaker, The Neo-Platonists (1901).


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