he regards the world, which occupies space, as free of dependence on any existing thing, yet does not regard the Lord who is worshipped as free of dependence on any existing thing if He is above the Throne. The Creator is more entitled to self-sufficiency than the creation. He must therefore be declared free of any partner, offspring, or need. If someone declares certain existing things free of any of these, then it is all the more fitting and necessary that he declare the Creator free of it.

He offered no sound answer to this analogy and the comparison they drew for him with the world. Instead, he said: “Regarding his statement, ‘Bodies occupy spatial locations,’ we say: the most that can be said here is that bodies need something else, and this is not impossible. As for