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The Alexandrian Neo-Platonists endeavoured in this way to escape from the obvious meaning of the Timæus.
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Antoninus says (ii. 14), "All things from eternity are of like forms, and come round in a circle." Cf. also ix. 28, and the references to more ancient philosophical writers in Gataker's notes on these passages.
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Eccles. i. 9, 10. So Origen, de Prin. iii. 5, and ii. 3.
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Rom. vi. 9.
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1 Thess. iv. 16.