 | Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...any real being, it is an evident demonstration, that from eternity there has been something; since what was not from eternity had a beginning; and what had a beginning must be produced by something else. 4. And that eternal Being must be most powerful. Next, it is evident,... | |
 | Reinhard Bendix - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 470 pages
...produced by nonentity. It is an evident demonstration that from eternity there has been something; since what was not from eternity had a beginning, and what had a beginning must be produced by something else. . . . Thus from a consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly... | |
 | Vere Claiborne Chappell - Philosophy - 1994 - 354 pages
...any real Being, it is an evident demonstration, that from Eternity there has been something; since what was not from Eternity, had a Beginning; and what had a Beginning, must be produced by something else. (E IV.x.3: 620) What remains to be established is that this eternal... | |
 | Michael Hunter - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 256 pages
...there is some real Being ... it is ... evident . . . that from Eternity there has been something; Since what was not from Eternity, had a Beginning; and what had a Beginning, must be produced by something else.7 There are a number of points involved in this highly compressed... | |
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If therefore we know there is some real being, and that non-entity cannot produce any real being, it is an evident demonstration, that from eternity there has been something; since what was not from eternity, had a beginning; and what had a beginning,... 
