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40. And I will be immoveable, and fixed in Thee, in my mould,
Thy truth; nor will I endure the questions of men, who by a penal
disease thirst for more than they can hold, and say, "What did God
make before He made heaven and earth?" Or, "How came it into His
mind to make anything, when He never before made anything?" Grant
to them, O Lord, to think well what they say, and to see that where
there is no time, they cannot say "never." What, therefore, He
is said "never to have made," what else is it but to say, that in no
time was it made? Let them therefore see that there could be no time
without a created being, and let them cease to speak that vanity. Let
them also be extended unto those things which are before, and
understand that thou, the eternal Creator of all times, art before
all times, and that no times are co-eternal with Thee, nor any
creature, even if there be any creature beyond all times.
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