any particular reality or attribute, is what determines the entire world’s realities, attributes, and magnitudes; and that it is a complete cause that necessarily produces its effect. Yet the individual instances of those effects that come into being are not beginningless, and nothing in it necessitates any effect’s being delayed. Nor does any attribute, quality, or act subsist in it that necessitates such determination—whether the selection of one reality rather than another, one attribute rather than another, one event rather than another, or the delay of whatever is delayed.

The world contains realities and newly occurring events that make it necessarily known that there must be an agent determining them. Yet they affirm only an absolute existence, with no distinctive existential character whatsoever, let alone something that singles out one reality rather than another ن and one attribute rather than another, and origination without a cause necessitating origination. These matters are discussed at length elsewhere.

The point is that, although the position of those who maintain infinity, or finitude in one direction but not the other, is unsound, those who deny that the Lord is above the Throne—arguing against this by denying corporeality, and using these arguments to deny corporeality—are subject to greater contradictions than those who affirm it. And the premises which