The same thing happens to nature that is measured, as to time that measures it. For there is nothing in it either that abides or is stable; but all things in it are either born, or being born, or dying. For which reason it would be a sin to say of God, who is the only one that is, that he was or will be. For those terms represent declinings, transitions, or vicissitudes of what cannot endure or remain in being.
