On the Universe

among men, the judges of establishing time itself. And fables of slaughters must not be set against me. For in sacred texts, we have universal memories of time before the flood. Therefore, one must subscribe to the sacred texts. Since time, therefore, is the number of celestial motion observed according to the aspect of the Sun or of any stars returning from point to point, it is certain that in the first three days of Genesis, no time could have been established in that manner. However, since the first intellect that counts is Adam, it is also most certain that, although there was time for the fourth, fifth, and the greater part of the sixth day, it was not, however, reckoned except from the previous evening of the Sabbath, which was at the end of the sixth day. Therefore, it is permitted, as is entirely necessary from the Beginning to the first day, that it could be admitted in a spiritual sense that those seven intervals of creation existed