and this is a transition (1) from not acting to acting. Whether such a thing is called change and transition (2) or not, it remains possible for that which is at rest to move and pass (3) from rest to motion (4), [even if both are positive realities (5).

As for the assertion:

“What necessitates its pre-eternity is among the concomitants of necessary existence,”

the answer is that its continuance may be conditional upon the will not attaching to its cessation, or upon something else, just as they maintain concerning the cause of temporal events. The Necessary Existent passed from not acting to acting; therefore, whatever answer they give regarding that (6) also answers this. If they affirm the perpetuity of His agency, both their position and ours are invalidated.

In short, (7) is it possible (8) for something to originate from the Pre-eternal without a temporally originated cause, and for one of the two alternatives of a possible thing to be preferred merely by power? If so, the one possessing power may bring about the motion whereby the preceding state of rest is removed, whether that rest is a positive reality or a privation] (9).

The one who denies corporeality said:

“This entails that the Creator is a locus for motion and temporal events (10), or for accidents. This is false.”