(6) But these
I pass over. (7) For all who have in anywise reflected on the divine
nature deny that God has a body. (8) Of this they find excellent proof in
the fact that we understand by body a definite quantity, so long, so broad,
so deep, bounded by a certain shape, and it is the height of absurdity to
predicate such a thing of God, a being absolutely infinite. (15:9) But
meanwhile by the other reasons with which they try to prove their point,
they show that they think corporeal or extended substance wholly apart
from the divine nature, and say it was created by God. (10) Wherefrom
the divine nature can have been created, they are wholly ignorant; thus
they clearly show, that they do not know the meaning of their own words.
(15:11) I myself have proved sufficiently clearly, at any rate in my own
judgment (Coroll. [vi] , and Note 2, [viii] ), that no substance can be
produced or created by anything other than itself. (12) Further, I showed
(in [xiv] ), that besides God no substance can be granted or conceived.
(15:13) Hence we drew the conclusion that extended substance is one of the
infinite attributes of God. (14) However, in order to explain more fully,
I will refute the arguments of my adversaries, which all start from the
following points:--
(15:15) Extended substance, in so far as it is substance, consists, as
they think, in parts, wherefore they deny that it can be infinite, or,
consequently, that it can appertain to God.
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