Now that you have learned what time and time mean, consider it, i.e. a part, and cut it to the knowledge of eternity with which you attribute your Creator and make it for Him like time for you. And if time for you in this relation is a relative matter with no reality in itself and you are a limited created being, then eternity is further and further away from the limit of existence being God in Him. Your statement and the statement of those who say that God spoke in eternity and said in eternity and destined such-and-such in his eternity, and he imagines by his illusion that it is an extension just as you imagine the extension of time in relation to you, then this is from the rule of illusion, not from the rule of reason and correct consideration, for the meaning of the word eternity is only an expression of denying the primacy of God Almighty. That is, there is no beginning for His existence, but rather He is the essence of the First, Glory be to Him, not with a beginning that ju