And many of their ordinary followers, worshippers, and scholars said, “Rather, He is co-located with it.” For if spatial separateness is ruled out, nothing remains but co-location. There is no doubt that their position is closer to reason. Yet it is closer to reason initially, insofar as they affirm Him as an existent co-located with the world, while in another respect it is far more contradictory and ignorant. For the grounds on which they deny that He is upon the Throne rule out His being co-located with the world even more strongly. Moreover, His being within created beings themselves entails unbelief and misguidance more abhorrent than the absolute negation that is utterly unintelligible. Furthermore, the proofs establishing that He is above the world and separate from it also rule out co-location.

The point here is that if they affirm only separateness in essence or in time, knowing this separateness does not preclude the possibility of His being co-located with the world. For an accident and a substance are distinct in essence and in time, despite