That which is eternal: that is to say, what never had birth, nor will ever have an end; to which time never brings any change. For time is a mobile thing, which appears as in a shadow, together with matter, which is ever running and flowing, without ever remaining stable or permanent. To which belong the words before and after, and has been or will be, which at the very first sight show very evidently that time is not a thing that is; for it would be a great stupidity and a perfectly apparent falsehood to say that that is which is not yet in being, or which already has ceased to be. And as for
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