DE UNIVERSIT.

to be proven among men who are the arbiters of time itself. And fables of massacres should not be opposed to me. For in the sacred books, we have the universal memories of time after the flood. Therefore, one must subscribe to the sacred books. Since time is the number of celestial motion observed according to the aspect of the Sun or any stars returning from point to point, it is certain that during the three first days of Genesis, no time could have been established in that manner. Moreover, since the first numerator-intellect is Adam, it is also most certain that although there was time for the greatest part of the fourth, fifth, and sixth days, it was not counted until the previous evening of the Sabbath, which was at the end of the sixth. Therefore, although it is absolutely necessary from the Beginning to the first day, it could be admitted in a spiritual sense that those seven intervals of creation had existed