[B-Greek] Titus 2:13

Edgar Foster edgarfoster2003 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 25 22:32:47 EDT 2006


Dear Harold,

I am sorry, but it is not Plutarch that construes
Timaeus 28C as a reference to two entities. It is
Numenius of Apamea (floruit 150 CE). See Ropbert M.
Grant. _Gods and the One God_ (Philadelphia:
Westminster Press, 1986), 81.

See Numenius (Fragment 17).

Best regards,
Edgar Foster

--- Harold Holmyard <hholmyard at ont.com> wrote:

> Edgar Foster wrote:
> 
> >Speaking of Sharp's Rule, I came across a passage
> in
> >Maximus of Tyre (Dissertatio 2.10) and I wonder
> >whether it has any relevance to the aforesaid rule:
> >
> >hO MEN GAR QEOS, hO TWN ONTWN PATHR KAI DHMIOURGOS,
> >[hO] PRESBUTEROS MEN hHLIOU . . . 
> >
> >Of course, Maximus is extracting concepts from
> Timaeus
> >28C:
> >
> >TON MEN OUN POIHTHN KAI PATERA TOUS hEUREIN. . . 
> >
> >Plato seems to have one entity in mind, although
> >Plutarch interprets Timaeus 28C as a reference to a
> >transcendent Father along with a Demiurge.
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> HH: I would think yes, so what Plutarch said strikes
> me as odd.


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