CHAPTER 5

THE ETERNITY OF GOD

The further conclusion is evident that God is eternal. For everything that begins to be or that ceases to be, is affected in this way through motion or change. But we have just shown that God is absolutely immobile. Consequently He is eternal.

Caput 5

Quod Deus est aeternus

Ex hoc autem apparet ulterius Deum esse aeternum. Omne enim quod incipit esse vel desinit, per motum vel per mutationem hoc patitur. Ostensum est autem quod Deus est omnino immobilis. Est ergo aeternus.

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God never began to be. He never ceases to be. He is not affected at all by motion or change. He is immobile. 

He has to then be eternal. Someone who has no beginning, who has no end, who never changes, who never moves - from potentiality to actuality - has to also be eternal. He always IS.