[255] A term reminiscent of the famous Christian Nicene formulation.
[256] That is we will form a "pair." Numenius, 14, also taught the Pythagorean "pair or doubleness."
[257] See vi. 6.16.
[258] Pun between essences, "einai," and one, or "henos."
[259] "Ousia."
[260] Notice the two words for "essence." Plato Cratylus, 424; Cary, 87.
[261] As Plato in his Cratylus suggests.
[262] Or, essence.
[263] Or, essence, to be.
[264] Being.