A Moving Image of Eternity
Time, by Timaeus’ description, is “a moving image of eternity,” stretched out towards the past and towards the future. We say of something in time that it was, or that it shall be; we ought not to say the same of the Eternal Being, who perfectly and forever simply is. Yet the father who had made the universe also made time whose vastness might call eternity to mind, and made it in measurable cycles whose completeness mirrors the Being that is eternally at one. “For the model exists eternally and the copy correspondingly has been and is and will be throughout the whole extent of time.”
7 January 2008 |
tags: Philosophy
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