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CHAP. 17. AGAINST THOSE WHO AFFIRM THAT EARTHLY BODIES
CANNOT BE MADE INCORRUPTIBLE AND ETERNAL.
These same philosophers further contend that terrestrial
bodies cannot be eternal though they make no doubt that the
whole earth, which is itself the central member
of their god,--not, indeed, of the greatest, but yet of a
great god, that is, of this whole world,--is eternal. Since,
then, the Supreme made for them another god, that
is, this world, superior to the other gods beneath Him; and
since the
CANNOT BE MADE INCORRUPTIBLE AND ETERNAL.
These same philosophers further contend that terrestrial
bodies cannot be eternal though they make no doubt that the
whole earth, which is itself the central member
of their god,--not, indeed, of the greatest, but yet of a
great god, that is, of this whole world,--is eternal. Since,
then, the Supreme made for them another god, that
is, this world, superior to the other gods beneath Him; and
since the