d. Try as he may, the author of this section cannot escape the dualism

so prominent in Numenius;[413] the acrobatic nature of his efforts in this direction are pointed out elsewhere. We find here a thoroughgoing distinction between soul and body, which is quite Numenian, and dualistic.[414]

e. Matter is passive, possessing no resiliency.[415]

f. We find an argument directed[416] against those who "posit being in matter." These must be the Stoics, with whom Numenius is ever in feud.

g. Of Numenian terms, we find "sôteria,"[417] God the Father.[418] Also the double Numenian name for the Divinity, Being and Essence.[419]

Against Numenius as author, we note:

a. The general form of the section, which is that of the Enneads, not the dialogue of Numenius's Treatise on the Good. We find also the usual Plotinic interjected questions.

b. Un-Numenian, at least, is matter as a mirror,[420] and evil as merely negative, merely unaffectability to good.[421] While Numenius speaks of matter as nurse and feeder, here we read nurse and receptacle.