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NUMENIUS

nu-me'-ni-us (Noumenios): The son of Antiochus, and Antipater were the two ambassadors whom Jonathan sent to the Romans, "to the Spartans, and to other places," after his victory in the plain of Hazor (Galilee) over the princes of Demetrius (1 Maccabees 12:1;) about 144 B.C. Their mission was to confirm and renew the friendship and treaty which had existed from the days of Judas (1 Maccabees 8:17;). They were well received and successful, both at Rome (1 Maccabees 12:3) and at Sparta (1 Maccabees 12:19;; 14:22). After the death of Jonathan, the victories of Simon and the establishment of peace, Simon sent Numenius on a second embassy to Rome (1 Maccabees 14:24), again to confirm the treaty and present a golden shield weighing 1,000 minae-apparently just before the popular decree by which Simon was created high priest, leader and captain "for ever" (1 Maccabees 14:27;), September, 141 B.C. The embassy returned in 139 B.C., bearing letters from the senate to the kings of Egypt, Syria and "all the countries," confirming the integrity of Jewish territory, and forbidding these kings to disturb the Jews, and requiring them also to surrender any deserters (1 Maccabees 14:15;). See also LUCIUS; Schurer, Gesch. des judischen Volkes (3rd and 4th editions), I, 236, 250 f.

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How Much More Impartial than Celsus is Numenius the Pythagorean...
... Chapter XV. How much more impartial than Celsus is Numenius the Pythagorean�
How much more impartial than Celsus is Numenius the ...
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But, Supposing that These Things do not at all Hinder or Prevent ...
... have less? You believe Plato, [3469] Cronius, [3470] Numenius, or any one
you please; we believe and confide in Christ. [3471] How ...
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Celsus Appears to Me to have Heard that There are Treatises in ...
... I know, moreover, that Numenius the Pythagorean"a surpassingly excellent expounder
of Plato, and who held a foremost place as a teacher of the doctrines of ...
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Circumstances Related of Origen.
... 8. For he was continually studying Plato, and he busied himself with the writings
of Numenius [1907] and Cronius, [1908] Apollophanes, [1909] Longinus, [1910 ...
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Origen Against Celsus
... nations a general� Chapter XV. How much more impartial than Celsus is
Numenius the Pythagorean� Chapter XVI. I must express ...
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On the Greek Translation of the Old Testament.
... And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: "For what is Plato,
but Moses speaking in Attic Greek?" This Moses was a theologian and prophet ...
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Now, that Miraculous Appearances have Sometimes Been Witnessed by ...
... who lived a very short time ago, as in the treatise of Plutarch of Chæronea "on
the Soul," and in the second book of the work of Numenius the Pythagorean on ...
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I Wish, However, to Show How Celsus Asserts Without any Good ...
... And we have read in the writings of Numenius the Pythagorean regarding his formation,
that he partakes of the essence of all the animals and plants that are ...
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The Jews Become Confederates with Caesar when He Fought against ...
... the son of Lucius of the Colline tribe, and Papirius of the Quirine tribe, concerning
the affairs which Alexander, the son of Jason, and Numenius, the son of ...
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Letter Lxx. To Magnus an Orator of Rome.
... respectively by Christians and by philosophers, and confirms all the dogmas of our
religion by quotations from Plato and Aristotle, from Numenius [2167] and ...
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Jambres (2 Occurrences)
... The Pythagorean philosopher Numenius (2nd century AD) speaks of Jannes and
Jambres as Egyptian hierogrammateis, or sacred scribes. ...
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Jannes (2 Occurrences)
... The Pythagorean philosopher Numenius (2nd century AD) speaks of Jannes and
Jambres as Egyptian hierogrammateis, or sacred scribes. ...
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Antiochus
... an-ti'-o-kus (Antiochos; A, Antimachos (1 Maccabees 12:16)): The father of Numenius,
who in company with Antipater, son of Jason, was sent by Jonathan on an ...
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