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diagrams ? For can it be supposed that a triangle 

 is at one and the same time stationary and moved ? 

 Hence, the world is, according to itself, unbe- 

 gotten. Nor should any one fatigue himself in 

 endeavouring to prove from the Atlanticus and 

 Politicus of Plato, that the world is generated. 

 For we have shown after what manner the world 

 is unbegotten, and how it is said by Plato to be 

 generated. So far, therefore, as it is supposed to 

 be generated, it will be incorruptible through the 

 will of God ; but so far as it is unbegotten, it will 

 be incorruptible from its own nature. And this 

 Plato knew. For everything else that is unbe- 

 gotten, is incorruptible." 



