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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Gregory of Nyssa
We find that we are drawn round uninterruptedly and evenly, and that we are always following a circumference where there is nothing to grasp; we find the divine life returning upon itself in an unbroken continuity, where no end and no parts can be recognized. Of God's eternity we say that which we have heard from prophecy; namely, that God is a king "of old," and rules for ages, and for ever, and beyond. Therefore we define him to be earlier than any beginning, and exceeding any end. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
After this, what wonder if there follow, "The Lord shall reign for ever and world without end; ye heathen shall perish out of His earth"? He uses heathen for sinners and ungodly.
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