The Literal Meaning of Genesis (continued)
ther, Son, and Holy Spirit, that is, God and His Word and the Spirit of both, the Trinity without confusion and without separation, God who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see,°* is not contained within any finite or infinite region in space and is not subject to change with any finite or infinite unfolding of time. In the substance which is God there is no part that is less than the whole, as is necessarily the case with those substances that are in space;?> nor was there once in the divine substance anything that no longer is, nor will there be anything which is not yet, as is the case with substances that can be affected by change in time.
CHAPTER 20
Bodies are changeable in time and space; souls are changeable in time only; and God is not changeable in any way.
39. God, then, who lives in an unchangeable eternity, created simultaneously all things, from which the course of time would run and space would be filled and the ages would unfold by the movement of beings in time and space. He made some of these beings spiritual and some corporeal, forming matter which was not created by another and was not uncreated; but He and He alone made it unformed and formable, so that it would precede its formation not in time but in origin.2° He established the spiritual creation above the corporeal, because the spiritual is changeable only in time, but the corporeal is changeable in time and place.9? For example, a soul moves in time, remembering what it had forgotten, or learning what it did not know, or wishing what it did not wish; but a body moves in space, from earth to heaven, or from heaven to earth, or from east to west, or in some similar ways.
Now, whatever moves through space must of necessity simultaneously move through time. But it is not necessary that everything which moves through time must also move through space.