Anf-03 v.v.xxii Pg 4
Gen. i. 20, 21.
Again afterwards: “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beasts of the earth after their kind.”6340 6340
Anf-03 v.v.xii Pg 10
Gen. i. 21, 22.
—because, of course, of their very great goodness; certainly not because they were evil, or very evil. Change is therefore admissible in Matter; and this being the case, it has lost its condition of eternity; in short,6255 6255 Denique.
its beauty is decayed in death.6256 6256 That is, of course, by its own natural law.
Eternity, however, cannot be lost, because it cannot be eternity, except by reason of its immunity from loss. For the same reason also it is incapable of change, inasmuch as, since it is eternity, it can by no means be changed.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 1
VERSE (21) - Ge 6:20; 7:14; 8:19 Job 7:12; 26:5 Ps 104:24-26 Eze 32:2 Jon 1:17
