SEV DE COSMOGR.

On the reasoning of time and days

Although the sky itself (in the meantime, while all things were divinely and celestially led out from privation and the potentiality of matter by degrees through the seven intervals corresponding to nature, which they call days) had been in motion for countless ages, yet in truth the existence of time could never have been HAD unless a numerator-intellect had been enclosed within the sky, that is, man for whose sake all things exist, who himself would mark the number of the motion. Thus, the Egyptians talk nonsense, as they place many years beyond the sacred chronology, while proving nothing that happened in them. The Chaldeans dreamt much more false things with their 300,000 years, but most of all and most impudently of all, Aristotle and those who, along with him, posit the eternity of the sensible world, because all things are