Dünyanın Ebediliği Üzerine: Sonlu Cismin Sonsuz Gücü Yoktur

One must take this point alone: whether the celestial body should be called 'generated' and the whole world likewise. And how could one not speak thus, even based on what Aristotle himself provides us? For he says that no finite body possesses infinite power, and he has demonstrated this in the eighth book of his Physics. If, therefore, the world is finite (for Aristotle himself has demonstrated this too), it is necessary that it does not possess infinite power. But we have indeed demonstrated in the preceding arguments that eternity is infinite power. Therefore, the world does not possess an eternal subsistence, since it lacks infinite power. If it does not have an eternal subsistence (for such a thing participates in eternity, and that which participates in eternity participates in infinite power), it is necessary that the world is not 'always' [eternal]; for Aristotle himself says that being 'always' is the characteristic of eternity, and says that the word 'eternity' is even derived from this phrase.