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Book I Chapter 1 · I.1.28c
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p. 5828 ⟨Ἀδήλου Πλατωνικοῦ⟩ (γʹ)
Κατὰ ταὐτὰ δὲ Πλάτων ἀμφοτέρων ἐπεμνήσθη ἐν τῇ πρὸς Ἑρμείαν καὶ Κορίσκον ἐπιστολῇ· τὸν γὰρ δημιουργὸν ἡγεμόνα πάντων τῶν θεῶν εἶπε, τῶν τε ὄντων καὶ τῶν μελλόντων. Μέλλοντας δὲ ἴσμεν θεοὺς τοὺς ἀεὶ γενητούς, τουτέστι συναπτομένους ποτὲ σώμασι.
Ἐν δὲ τῷ Τιμαίῳ χωρίσας τοῦ πλήθους τοὺς θεοὺς ἑνικῶς διὰ τοῦ οἰκητηρίου τοῦ κόσμου τοὺς πάντας ὠνόμασεν· “οὗτος” γὰρ ἔφη, “ὄντος ἀεὶ λογισμὸς θεοῦ περὶ τὸν ποτὲ ἐσόμενον θεόν”· δῆλος γὰρ ὁ μὲν λογιζόμενος θεὸς ὁ δημιουργὸς ὤν, ὁ δὲ ἐσόμενος καὶ γιγνόμενος ἀεὶ ὁ κόσμος λεγόμενος.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 1
p. 5928 ⟨An unidentified Platonist⟩ (3)
In the same way Plato mentioned both in the letter to Hermias and Coriscus. He called the maker the leader of all the gods, both those who exist and those who are to come. By gods “to come” we understand those who are always subject to generation—that is, those who at some time are joined to bodies.59
In the Timaeus, separating the gods from multiplicity, he named them all in the singular through their dwelling-place, the cosmos. For he said: “This was the reasoning of the god who always exists concerning the god who was to exist at some time.” It is clear that the god who reasons is the maker, while the one who is to exist and is always coming-to-be is what is called the cosmos.60
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