2p30d.md (920B)
1 The duration of our body does not depend on its 2 essence (II. Ax. i.), nor on the absolute nature of God (I. 3 xxi.). But (I. xxviii.) it is conditioned to exist and operate 4 by causes, which in their turn are conditioned to exist and 5 operate in a fixed and definite relation by other causes, these 6 last again being conditioned by others, and so on to infinity. 7 The duration of our body therefore depends on the common order of 8 nature, or the constitution of things. Now, however a thing may 9 be constituted, the adequate knowledge of that thing is in God, 10 in so far as he has the ideas of all things, and not in so far as 11 he has the idea of the human body only. (II. ix. Coroll.) 12 Wherefore the knowledge of the duration of our body is in God 13 very inadequate, in so far as he is only regarded as constituting 14 the nature of the human mind; that is (II. xi. Coroll.), this 15 knowledge is very inadequate to our mind. Q.E.D. 16 17