Chapter

 1 3 |          suppose that Matter was eternal, on the ground that the
 2 3 |         ground that the Lord was eternal, in so far will it be evident
 3 4 |          equally unmade, equally eternal, set forth as being without
 4 4 |        God when it is held to be eternal.~
 5 6 |         position that Matter was eternal, without any encroachment
 6 6 |           that God similarly was eternal without any encroachment
 7 7 |       prescription, that what is eternal and unborn is incapable
 8 7 |       end, and are therefore not eternal, do, by reason of their
 9 7 |         the two Beings which are eternal, as being unborn and unmade
10 7 |    equally unborn and unmade and eternal it must be resident in both
11 7 |        subject matter to God, an eternal to the Eternal, an unborn
12 7 |        to God, an eternal to the Eternal, an unborn to the Unborn,
13 11|          principle, that what is eternal cannot possibly admit of
14 11|    subject to any, because it is eternal. But inasmuch as, on other
15 11|   grounds, it is evident what is eternal as God is the highest good,
16 11|        He alone is good as being eternal, and therefore good as being
17 11|       Matter, which (since it is eternal) must needs be believed
18 11|      good? Else if that which is eternal prove to be also capable
19 11|          be compatible with l an eternal Being, even by being made
20 11|        now stands, since what is eternal can be deemed evil, the
21 11|        and insuperable, as being eternal; and in that case it will
22 12|        all been determined to be eternal, as being unmade, unborn,
23 12|          the ground that what is eternal is incapable of change,
24 12|          was not, if it were not eternal. But as for the Lord, who
25 12|        for the Lord, who is also eternal, (he maintained) that He
26 15|       been claimed for it, as an eternal being. Thus, in regard to
27 27|   looking as if it pointed to an eternal existence, making its subject,
28 34| perishable thing out of what was eternal, that is to say, out of
29 34|          in other words, what is eternal out of what is perishable.
30 39|        divided seeing that He is eternal and abiding for ever, and
31 42|       both alike having free and eternal motion. At the same time,