5p30d.md (494B)
1 Eternity is the very essence of God, in so far as this 2 involves necessary existence (I. Def. viii.). Therefore to 3 conceive things under the form of eternity, is to conceive things 4 in so far as they are conceived through the essence of God as 5 real entities, or in so far as they involve existence through the 6 essence of God; wherefore our mind, in so far as it conceives 7 itself and the body under the form of eternity, has to that 8 extent necessarily a knowledge of God, and knows, &c. Q.E.D. 9 10