only.” He presented the argument in abbreviated form. Its substance is that the first alternative entails either His being divisible or a single entity occupying two spatial regions, while the second entails His being the size of an indivisible atom. This very argument has already been discussed in connection with denying that He occupies space.

“The second line of argument: If He inhered in a body, either it would be said that He had always inhered in it—which would entail either the eternity of the substrate or His having come into existence, exalted is He, both of which are impossible—or it would be said that He came to inhere in it after not inhering in it. In that case, either this would be necessary—in which case, that necessity—or else