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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.67.7–I.49.67.9
Ancient Greek
p. 152467.7
Ἕνωσιν μὲν οὖν καὶ ταυτότητα ἀδιάκριτον τῆς ψυχῆς πρὸς τὰς ἑαυτῆς ἀρχὰς πρεσβεύειν φαίνεται Νουμήνιος, σύμφυσιν δὲ καθ᾽ ἑτέραν οὐσίαν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι διασῴζουσι.
67.8
Καὶ ἀναλύσει μὲν ἐκεῖνοι, συντάξει δὲ οὗτοι προσεοίκασι· καὶ οἱ μὲν ἀδιορίστῳ συναφῇ, οἱ δὲ διωρισμένῃ χρῶνται.
67.9
Οὐ μέντοι κρατεῖται ὁ διορισμὸς αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ κόσμου ἢ κατέχεται ὑπὸ τῆς φύσεως, ὥσπερ τινὲς τῶν Πλατωνικῶν ὑπειλήφασιν· ἀνεῖται δὲ πάντῃ ἀφ᾽ ὅλων, ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀχωρίστων οὐσιῶν τουτὶ νοοῦμεν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 152567.7 · Union and distinct existence
Numenius, then, appears to champion union and undifferentiated identity of the soul with its own principles. The older thinkers, however, preserve a growing-together in which its essence remains distinct.1831
67.8 · Dissolution or ordered conjunction
The former position resembles dissolution, the latter an ordered conjunction. The former thinkers employ an undifferentiated connection, the latter one that preserves distinctions.1832
67.9 · Distinction without cosmic confinement
Their distinctness, however, is neither ruled by the cosmos nor confined by nature, as some Platonists have supposed. It is wholly released from all things, just as we understand this in the case of inseparable essences.1833
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