He may therefore be told: Your statement, “If we point to an indivisible point, either there is something else above it or there is not,” employs the very intellect that guides one to knowledge of corporeal things. For the discussion of points, lines, and related matters belongs to geometry, which concerns the dimensions of bodies.

If an argument of this kind is sound in matters of divine lordship, then the premise you established—that divine matters cannot be examined using the intellect by which corporeal things are known—is invalid. Once it is invalidated, your opponent’s statement is correct: the existence of a being neither within the world nor outside it is impossible. Whenever that premise is invalidated, your opponent’s statement is known through self-evidence and the necessary dictates of the innate disposition, which admit of no counterargument. For that innate disposition could be known to be unsound only if the judgment of the intellect by which corporeal things are known were invalid in matters of divine lordship.

But if, because this argument concerns corporeal things, reasoning of this kind may not be used in matters of divine lordship, then this argument is invalid, and there would be no