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March 3, 2005
god and time
It is not in time that you precede time: elsewise you would not precede all times. You precede all past times in the sublimity of an ever present eternity, and you surpass all future times, because they are to come, and when they come, they shall be past, "but you are the Selfsame, and your years shall not fail." Your years neither come nor go, but our years come and go, so that all of them may come. Your years stand all at once, because they are steadfast: departing years are not turn away by those that come, because they never pass away. But these years of ours shall all be, when they all shall be no more. Your years are one day, and your day is not each day, but today, because with you today does not give way to tomorrow, nor does it succeeds yesterday. With you, today is eternity. Therefore you begot the coeternal, to whom you said, "This day have I begotten you." You have made all times, and you are before all times, and not at any time was there no time.
Augustine
Posted by amin at March 3, 2005 12:27 AM
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