Eternity


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1 Eternity as timelessness and immutability or as endless and infinite time, the distinction between eternity and time.
2 The priority of eternity to time.
3 Aeviternity as intermediate between eternity and time.
4 The issue concerning the infinity of time and the eternity of the world or of motion.
5 The eternity of God.
6 The things which partake of eternity.
7 The imperishability of angels, spiritual substances, souls.
8 The imperishable in the physical order, matter, atoms, celestial bodies.
9 The immutability of truth and ideas.
10 The eternity of Heaven and Hell, everlasting life and death.
11 The knowledge and imagery of eternity.


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