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9. And therefore the Spirit, the Teacher of Thy servant. when
He relates that Thou didst in the Beginning create heaven and earth,
is silent as to times, silent as to days. For, doubtless, that
heaven of heavens, which Thou in the Beginning didst create, is some
intellectual creature, which, although in no wise co-eternal unto
Thee, the Trinity, is yet a partaker of Thy eternity, and by
reason of the sweetness of that most happy contemplation of Thyself,
doth greatly restrain its own mutability,' and without any failure,
from the time in which it was created, in clinging unto Thee,
surpasses all the rolling change of times. But this
shapelessness -this earth invisible and without form has not
itself been numbered among the days. For where there is no shape nor
order, nothing either cometh or goeth; and where this is not, there
certainly are no days, nor any vicissitude of spaces of times.
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