but þilke þing þan þat haþ {and} co{m}prehendiþ to-gidre alle þe plente of þe lif i{n}terminable. to whom þere ne failiþ nat of þe fut{ur}e. 5008 {and} to whom þer nis nat of þe p{re}t{er}it escapid nor ypassed. þilk[e] same is ywitnessed or yproued by ryȝt to ben eterne. and it byhoueþ by necessite þat þilke þinge be alwey p{re}sent to hym self {and} co{m}potent. as 5012 who seiþ alwey p{re}sent to hym self {and} so myȝty þat al by ryȝt at hys plesaunce. {and} þ{a}t he haue al p{re}sent þe infinit of þe moeuable tyme. [Sidenote: Therefore some philosophers, who had heard that Plato believed that this world had neither beginning nor end, falsely concluded, that the created universe was coeternal with its Creator.] wherfore som men trowe{n} wrongefully þat whan þei heren þat it semid[e] 5016 to plato þat þis worlde ne had[de] neuer bygynnynge of tyme. ne þat it neu{er}e shal haue faylynge. þei wenen i{n} þis man{er}e þat þis worlde ben maked coet{er}ne wiþ his makere. as who seiþ. þei wenen þat þis worlde {and} 5020 god ben maked to-gidre eterne. and it is a wrongful wenynge. [Sidenote: But it is one thing to be conducted through a life of infinite duration, which was Plato’s opinion of the world, and another thing to comprehend at once the whole extent of this duration as present which, it is manifest, can only belong to the Divine mind.] for oþer þing is it to ben yladd by lif interminable as plato graunted[e] to þe worlde. {and} oþer þing is it to embracen to-gidre alle þe p{re}sence to þe lif 5024 interminable. þe whiche þing it is clere {and} manifest þat it is p{ro}pre to þe deuine þouȝt. [[pg 173]] [Sidenote: Nor ought it to seem to us that God is prior to and more ancient than his creatures by the space of time, but rather by the simple and undivided properties of his nature.] ne it ne sholde nat semen to vs þat god is elder þan þinges þat ben ymaked by quantite of tyme. but raþer by þe p{ro}prete of hys 5028 symple nature. [Sidenote: The infinite progression of temporal things imitates the ever-present condition of an immovable life:] for þis ilke infinit[e] moeuyng of temp{or}el þinges folwiþ þis p{re}sentarie estat of þe lijf i{n}moeueable.