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1 7 |      this Being, except by its creation, or by its existence as
2 7 |       it exists, except by its creation. And, since nothing else
3 9 |      an existence before their creation in the thought of the Creator. ~
4 9 |      been nothing before their creation. For, in no wise can anything
5 9 |      were nothing before their creation, to this extent, that they
6 10|   things, which preceded their creation in the thought of the creator,
7 10| supreme Substance before their creation, that they might be created;