that has passed has an end—the present moment—but no beginning.
If you claim that past events do not exist simultaneously, whether now or at any other time, and that what does not exist cannot be described as finite or infinite, then you must confront the case of human souls separated from their bodies. According to you, these souls do not perish, and the souls that exist apart from bodies are infinite in number. For there has always been a sperm-drop from a human being, and a human being from a sperm-drop, without beginning. The soul of every human being who has died has remained, numerically distinct from the soul of anyone who died before him, at the same time as him, or after him, although all are of the same kind. Thus, according to you, an infinite number of souls exists at every moment.”
He said:
“If it is said: They have no connection with one another, nor are they ordered either by nature or by position. We deem an infinite number of existing things impossible only when they are ordered by nature, as bodies are, for they are arranged one above