the argument for the temporal origination of bodies; rather, he would have to allow that some of them are eternal,” he may be told: Every body occupies a particular spatial region—its own spatial region, namely its sides, extremity, and boundaries, which are included in what is denoted by it. As for its occupying an existent spatial region separate from itself, that is another matter and does not necessarily follow, as we have already explained. It is thus clear that this does not contradict the argument they have advanced for the temporal origination of bodies, although we do not accept that argument—not for this reason, but for other reasons.

Moreover, his opponents who say that He is a body, or that He has a limit and magnitude, dispute his claim that everything that is a body or has a limit originated in time. They may say that claiming that all such things originated in time is like claiming the temporal origination of every entity, everything possessing attributes, every attribute and that which possesses it, everything subsisting in itself, or everything that exists, and so forth.

As for his statement in the fourth argument, “Spatial regions are equal, and this precludes being situated in any particular one of them,” he may be told: The spatial regions