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As philosophy, the commentary is rather weak. The weakness of the argumentation may, in some cases, be the fault of the transcriptionist who recorded the lectures, but the misunderstandings of
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of the sixteenth century contain almost the complete text, minus the first seven lectures. These fuller copies name the philosopher David, which may be a guess of the scribes based on style.
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Neoplatonism by Christian philosophers in the Byzantine empire in the late 7th century, the author is generally identified as a
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