a body like other bodies, in the sense that He shares with others what is denoted by corporeality, just as He shares with them what is denoted by being characterized by attributes and subsisting in Himself; that the necessary implications of this shared aspect have not been affirmed for Him; that none of the properties peculiar to created beings is affirmed for Him; and that He is not like any body in what is necessary, possible, or impossible for Him. For created bodies have distinctive properties on account of which what is necessary, possible, or impossible for each is established.”

According to these people, the shared aspect does not entail any of the properties peculiar to created beings. He has neither affirmed nor denied this shared aspect here. Yet he says that it entails sameness in reality, that whatever necessarily applies to either body necessarily applies to the other, and that they differ only in what occurs to them by the Creator’s will.

But he has not substantiated this claim here, leaving his argument without proof, even though the claim is itself false, as is already known.

When he substantiated it elsewhere, he based it on two premises: the existence of the indivisible atom and atoms being alike in their essential nature.

Neither premise is conceded, and both are false; he himself has stated that there is no proof for them. Moreover, I know of no one who has said that He is a body like other bodies, nor has anyone reported this statement from anyone else. Yet despite this, he has not